Distance: 2.40 kms
Locality: Brookdale
Streets walked:
- Kingfisher View
- Bodicoat Drive
- Quoll Plaza
- Lorrikeet Grove
- Quail Court
- Avocet Street
- Sitella Plaza
- Ringtail Place
- Wattlebird Place
- Bronzewing Court
- Whistler Green
- Eaglehawk Grove
Running street count: 440
Running distance count: 167.40 kms
This area was developed maybe a couple of decades ago. It's parked near some vintage remaining farmland - with cows still grazing - which has managed to escape development so far. This harks back to Armadale's old catchphrase 'City living, country style'. Long may it remain.
The thing about this part of Brookdale is that its houses are starting to get run down. The young couples that moved here when it was established have now got kids just out of high school, whose cars spill out onto the front yard and terminate what's left of the lawns (which is probably a mercy killing). Any houseproud people are way outnumbered by folks who couldn't much care. I've been both in my time. It's not just the individual homes though, other things are aging fast: the wooden fences are rotting along Harber Drive, for example. This is what Piara Waters or Harrisdale might look like in 20 years. Affordable housing gets old quickly when we don't maintain it...
Even so, this little route contains my current fave street in the city: Bronzewing Court. There's something about it I can't quantify, probably a dozen small things that are hard to notice but add up to make a unique street. The way it curves? The park? The way it's situated? Difficult to say, but I dig it to bits.
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| Traditional old-school cement bus stop! Love it. Note rotting fences behind. |
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| Trefle Noir farm gates on Ninth Road. How long will its meadows survive? |
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| Bronzewing. |
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