Port McDonnell, a fishing town near the Victorian and South Australian border, is short on aesthetic charms. Fishing boats bobbing in the harbour, hamburger joints, fish and chip shops and the occasional Norfolk Island pine give it a classic Australian seafront quality that is distinguished by utilitarian structures such as a rather industrial looking lighthouse, water tower and a large LPG gas tank plonked rather unsympathetically on the waterfront promenade across the road from the building in this scene. Oddly someone has seen fit to plonk a desultory war memorial amongst this mix.

The print was deliberately left in a semi-finished state resulting in a very plastic looking tree much like a miniature railway model and unrealistically textured buildings contrasted against an unnatural early evening deep indigo blue sky. It reflects a situation where the relative crudity unintentionally becomes an asset and is best left untouched.