Things to Do in Melbourne's Bays & Peninsulas

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Bellarine Peninsula

• The National Wool Museum, in Geelong, with three separate galleries housed in a historic 1872 bluestone wool store.  The museum focuses on the history, politics and heritage of the wool industry, with demonstrations, re-creations of a shearing shed, displays and machinery.
• Geelong Naval and Maritime Museum, an extensive collection of maritime memorabilia including three large-scale model ships, housed in the former stables of Osborne House, one of Geelong’s grandest historic homesteads. 
• Geelong’s Botanic Gardens, magnificent landscaped gardens planted in 1858 surrounded by shaded parklands and overlooking Corio Bay. Within the grounds is the Old Customs House, a tiny cottage said to be the oldest timber building in Victoria, which contains historic displays of the days when it was used as a telegraph station.
• Wine tastings and sales at the region’s boutique wineries, noted for their pinot noir and cabernet sauvignon wines.
• Bird watching at Balyang Bird Sanctuary, an 8ha bird reserve with central lake, and at the wetland reserve off Barwon Heads Road, maintained by the Geelong Field Naturalists Club and home to over 100 species of birdlife.

Mornington Peninsula

• The exclusive holiday resort town of Portsea, 93km from Melbourne at the very tip of the peninsula. The town has gracious 19th century mansions and gardens, beautiful English trees, protected beaches with calm waters, and a long wooden pier popular with anglers. Back Beach can be rough but has good surfing.
• London Bridge and the Farnsworth Track. This natural rock formation to the west of Portsea Back Beach can be reached by a 3km cliff-top walking track.
• The Coastal Walk – a series of walking trails link London Bridge with Cape Schanck, 28km east. The journey takes in jagged cliffs, interesting rock formations, tidal rock pools, sand dunes, spectacular views, dense coastal scrub and some well-known, beautiful and rugged (but dangerous) beaches such as Blairgowrie, Rye, St Andrews and Gunnamatta.
• Mornington – the main town for the peninsula, it retains the feel of an old fishing and boating port. There is a boardwalk overlooking Mornington pier and harbour at Schnapper Point and 25 million-year-old fossils at Fossil Beach. Of note is the National Antique Centre which covers 6000sqm with antiques, bric-a-brac, furniture, books, crystal, china, jewellery, linen, silver, tools and collectables.
• Frankston Foreshore Area and Kanahook Creek Reserve covers 43ha extending north to Seaford. It is a 12km return walk along the foreshore or the 6km walking track can be joined at various intermediate points. At Frankston there is a pier and a surf lifesaving club, picnic-barbecue facilities, a car park and toilets. Boating, fishing, snorkelling, diving, sailboarding and swimming are popular.
• Hastings, on the western side of the peninsula, has a natural deep-water harbour  and is the main centre for Western Port. It is a popular tourist destination with a pleasant foreshore area, a marina and fine swimming and surf beaches nearby.
• The Hastings Street Market is held every Tuesday and there are also markets every Sunday at the Bittern Railway Station in Bittern. The Western Port Festival is held each year in March and the Hastings Ocean Yacht Race in mid-September.
• Wineries – the Mornington Peninsula wine growing region has more than 100 wineries producing a vast array of quality cool-weather wines. The wineries cater for the tourist market with cellar door sales and restaurants.
   

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