Enclave: Clarendon and Hobartville (Sydney by Technically XIV)

Last week, I was cruising through a couple of Sydney by Technicality suburbs around Richmond. This week, I'm cruising through a couple of Sydney by Technicality suburbs around Richmond.

Clarendon

Take the Hawkesbury Valley Way southeast from Richmond and you'll reach the suburb of Clarendon.

The logical starting point to turning off the main road and starting on the suburb is the handsome-in-my-opinion local pub.

To get to the rest of the suburb, you'll have to cross the railway line at a level crossing,

after the train passes.

There's a (horse) racecourse in this suburb, something I managed to completely miss on my visit. 

What I did see though were rurally-styled homes and farmhouses, 

and more flat, sweeping views 

Without much else to say about this reasonably attractive collection of streets, I headed off to the next suburb (just missing a photo of the kangaroos jumping across the road below). 

Clarendon: Horseplay.

Hobartville

This next suburb is interesting for one single reason, and its nothing to do with its Tassie-invoking name. No, the thing about Hobartville is that its an enclave, entirely bordered by Richmond.

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Naturally, getting here from Clarendon meant driving back through Richmond to enter this small residential suburb's bounds.

Unlike its interesting geography, the suburb itself isn't anything too mindblowing. Here, I found some quiet suburbia characterised by modest houses on reasonably large blocks of land. Just like mama used to make.

It's not all plain though, for instance this house has the single best letter box I've seen on my adventures,

and this one has both a boat and a garbage truck. Some people have everything. 

Taking this path behind the boating garbo's house,

led to a small strip of nature behind the houses. 

This wouldn't be worth mentioning except for the most bizarre creek. 

This thing surely floods every time it rains, right?

With the afternoon's sunlight just about calling it a day, I headed back to the car to wrap up this day of suburbsing.

Hobartville: Not quite Hobart, not quite a village.