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Mornington
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Mornington
Peninsula Southern
SAFETY BEACH TO PORTSEA
 The
stretch of the Peninsula from Safety Beach to Portsea is the year-round
playground for visitors and those escaping the hustle and bustle
of the city.
The foreshore is ideal for families as it offers the opportunity
to camp close to many beautiful safe beaches and the area has many
activities to enjoy whether it be fishing, water sports, golfing,
bush and beach walking, trail riding or just relaxing on the beach
soaking up the sun.
While the Mornington Peninsula is at its most popular in summer,
there is an attraction to visit or something to do
all year-round.
The bayside beaches are a mecca for beachlovers, some enjoying more
daring activities such as wind surfing, parasailing, scuba diving,
even swimming with the dolphins, sailing or just building sand castles.
Fishing boats can be chartered from Rosebud, Rye and Sorrento and
regular yacht and motor launch cruises take visitors to see the
seals and Bottlenose Dolphins in the Bay. Throughout the summer
months children revel in the amusement carnivals on Rosebud and
Rye foreshores.
With over 15 sandbelt courses on the Peninsula, visitors can enjoy
year-round golf in all weather. Take a day or a few days and stay
awhile at the many comfortable accommodation venues, visit the wineries
and restaurants and your golfing holiday will be one to remember
SORRENTO & PORTSEA 
Sorrento, the site of the first settlement, came into prominence
again in the 1870s as a fashionable seaside resort for wealthy Melburnians
who built magnificent holiday residences or stayed in elegant guest
houses along the coast. Tourists arrived by paddle steamer and were
transported from the pier by stream tram to the rotundas, walkways
and lookouts on the back beach.
Today travellers can use the Peninsula Searoad Car Ferry to and
from Queenscliff. Many travellers tour round the bay from Melbourne
and the ferry affords a shortcut to Queenscliff and then onto the
Great Ocean Road.
Walk through Sorrento or take a trip on a horse drawn tram to see
the early buildings of local limestone which give the town its distinctive
appearance.Take a trip on the Moonraker and swim with the Dolphins.
Neighbouring Portsea has grand old and new mansions and one of the
best bayside beaches as well as one of the best surf beaches on
the Peninsula.
Visit Point Nepean National Park at 'The Heads" and tour Fort
Nepean which has been surrounded with an aura of mystery and intrigue
for more than 100 years. As a fort, and part of a network of fortifications
protecting Melbourne from the Russians in the 1880s, it was closed
to the public. By a strange coincidence the first shots in the First
and Second World Wars were fired from there! The gun emplacements,
fortifications, tunnels and the Quarantine Station, established
in 1852, are impressive as are the views of swirling waters in The
Rip on one side and the vast waters of Bass Strait on the other.
(bookings essential with Dept of Conservation & Natural Resources
Ph: (03) 5984 4276.
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