– the eagle house, another from the architectural oddities file, possible Folly…
This intriguing construction, cement with stone veneer, from the ’40s, overlooks the beach at Atlantida on the central west coast. It is currently undergoing repair and rennovation – for years abandoned and subject to the encroaching beach erosion, blowing sand and so on. Now one can go right in, from the balcony on which people are standing, and up some steep stairs to come out on another little balcony with a view, contained in the bird’s beak. The rooms are tiny, and it’s by no means your comfy beachside residence. there is a back entrance to the fithg of this photo, past the bird’s shoulders. Apparrently before the cliffs began to be eroded the complex included a construction of a ship’s bow complete with some figurehead – that has crashed into the sea but the dunes/cliffs have now been stabilised and the house itself remains at the top of the cliff.