Port Phillip

Point Lonsdale
The quieter bayside beaches of this scenic township contain shallows and rockpools and tidal rock shelves for exploration while the ocean beach offers a majestic stretch of white sand to Barwon heads. Point Lonsdale's lookout provides dress circle seats for viewing vessels negotiating the notorious passage of water at Port Phillip Heads known as "the Rip". The Point Lonsdale Pier was built in the late 1890s to assist in the retrieval of people from ships wrecked coming through the Rip.

Queenscliff Harbour
Founded in 1882, Queenscliff is the unchallenged "capital" of the Bellarine Peninsula and features the Queenscliff Harbour, built in 1934. Catch a ferry to Sorrento for a day trip or visit the Maritime Museum or the Marine Discovery Centre. The pier and lifeboat shed were an integral part of the infrastructure provided to improve the safety for ships entering or leaving Port Phillip Bay. Many lives were saved though the efforts of the crews that manned the lifeboat, which is now located in the Queenscliffe Maritime Museum.

Water based activities are well established, dive schools offer scuba and snorkelling tuition, boat charters offer fishing or dolphin tours, jetty angling, surfing, sailboarding - the opportunities are endless. Or drop a line from the end of the Queenscliff Pier and utilise the picnic and barbecue facilities that are just along the foreshore

Portarlington
Fishing from the pier and uncrowded waters, swimming in safe swimming beaches and enjoying the sweeping views of Corio Bay and the Melbourne skyline are some of the activities enjoyed at Portarlington. The Portarlington Pier services a number of commercial fishing vessels who offer fresh mussels on weekends.

Cheetham Wetlands
The fresh and salt water wetlands of Point Cook form part of the internationally significant Cheetham Wetlands which provide important feeding and habitat areas for thousands of migratory birds from Japan, Siberia and New Zealand. "The Tower" is a public art commisson which provides a visible symbol and celebration of migration to Australia and, from its platforms, unique vantage points from which to view the Cheetham Wetlands with its sensitive ecology.