Victor Harbor's main claim to fame is that it is a tourist town. This lookout is the first stop for tourists. It has a recently completed sculture of a whale, decorated with a mosaic of aboriginal artwork. From the lookout you can see Granite Island (that island sort of thing near the horizon on the left) which was an important port for the riverboat trade. In the early days of white settlement in Australia, and before the railway network was built, paddlesteamers on the Murray River would bring wool and wheat downstream to Goolwa. It would then be transfered to ships anchored off Granite Island via a short railway line. (If you look hard at the picture you can see the causeway -- that's a flash name for a bridge -- between the island and the mainland). In the early days Victor Harbor was also a whaling port. The "bluff", or Rosetta Head, which is that bumpy thing on the horizon near the centre of the photo was a lookout point for whales.