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Freeway/Highway Park Accommodation Lookout Toilets Balcombe Major sealed road Marine National Park/ Marine Sanctuary Barbecue Park Information Toilets for the disabled Minor sealed The Mornington Water body Beach activity Restaurant Short walks Local sealed road Heritage site Picnic table Hiking 0 1 2 Unsealed road Drinking water Showers Wildlife viewing-birds KILOMETRES Walking track N Cartography by Spatial Vision 2010 M/8466 Guided walk Snorkelling Wildlife viewing Walks – kangaroos Peninsula Walk Tubba Rubba DEVILBEND Tracks wind through the Quarantine Station, forts, gun Winery N.F.R. Point Nepean emplacements and Moonah woodland, with sweeping Hang gliding ramp Creek views of and at the Heads Wildlife viewing Foxeys Nepean Bay Observatory Point Dromana Bay Bulldog The boasts some of ’s Defence 6.4km from Wilsons Folly Track at London Bridge to the – marine life Hangout Forts Coles Kiosk Surf fishing Track tip of Point Nepean Ticonderoga Bay Point Nepean National Park COOLART most spectacular walking landscapes, including peaceful Quarantine BALNARRING DEFENCE Bird hide Creek PORT PHILLIP HEADS Station Light house Surf lifesaving C787 MARINE NATIONAL PARK PORT PHILLIP HEADS (Seasonal) bays, wild ocean coastlines and tranquil bush. The 100km Range Police Point MARINE NATIONAL PARK FREEWAY Area Walk Weerona Bay (Portsea Hole) Safety M7 POINT NEPEAN ROAD Mornington Peninsula Walk is the ultimate challenge, Collins Bay SheepwashBeach NATIONAL PARK PARK ENTRANCE Point Macarthur Bald Hill ROAD London Bridge Information Portsea Dunns C784 Wilsons Centre but there are many other short walking opportunities Warringine Folly POINT Point King C785 ROAD ROAD Sorrento Back Beach B788 Track LONDON B110 DUNNS BRIDGE along the way. C788 CREEK Creek BACK Creek DAOR BEACH HOTHAM MYERS ROAD Dromana Creek Portsea Surf Beach DROMANA ROAD You can explore our beautiful bushlands, spot kangaroos Farnsworth Creek Portsea Surf BeachMORNINGTON PENINSULA B.R. BUCKLEY Track ROAD NATIONAL PARK ROAD N.C.R. PENINSULA BOUNDAR Y and birds, gaze over deserted ocean beaches of our ROAD ROAD PORT PHILLIP BAY ROAD BALD HILL TO TUBBARUBBA OCEAN ROAD C787 N.C.R national, marine and state parks, discover early history at BEACH Sullivan Bay Collins Settlement Historic Site maD DAOR NEPEAN Bald Hill Sorrento Capel Sound kcarT G NRETTIB DROMANA C788 BackSorrento Beach snippoC kcarT McCrae ROAD Point Nepean, and Collins Settlement Site B110 Collins Settlement G ARTHURS OT Dam McILROYS Merricks ST PAULS Historic Site Red Hill North

St Pauls Beach Camerons Bay Trail ROAD ROAD ARTHURS HILL ROAD ROAD and enjoy popular bay beaches as you trek the southern Bight Winds through foreshores and camping Track SEAT C777 gnivasefiL grounds of Port Phillip from Portsea to SEAT NEPEAN M7 STATE Merricks

MERRICKS kcarT Dromana JETTY Peninsula. A great variety of accommodation, excellent Diamond Bay B110 Rosebud PARK PURVES KANGERONG 28km Portsea to Dromana WHITE B.R. OceanKoonya Beach HUGHES ROADBlairgowrie ROAD C789 food and fine regional wines are all within easy reach. White Cliffs ENRUOBTSAE DAOR ROAD sllaFgniK HILL Balnarring Koonya Ocean Beach k c a r T tiu cri C DAOR SANDY POINT BAYVIEW SYELNATS gnivasefiL Arthurs Seat State Park Summit / Seawinds kcarT POINT Walking DAOR ROAD Tootgarook MORNINGTON ROSEBUD Coolart ST JOHNS WOOD ROAD Rye B.R. RED COOLART Creek Bridgewater Bay ROAD DUNDAS LLAFRETAW HISTORIC AREA O.T. DAM CIRCUIT WALK Rosebud GULLY Bridgewater Bay Red Hill Creek ROAD Pirates Bay O DAR West Kings Falls Circuit Walk Creek Creek 1. TWO BAYS WALKING TRACK PEARSEROAD South ROAD 3km circuit in tranquil bushland includes boardwalk around O.T. Dam. LORD SOMERS CANTERBURY JETTY ROAD Drum Pearse’s Beach ROAD Drum East

TASMAN DRIVE ROSEBUD SOUTH STREET SECTION gnivasefiL TRUEMANS Balnarring kcarT Creek Creek Somers No. 16 Beach BONEO ROAD Stony Merricks Beach Coolart ROAD

Bays After leaving Arthurs Seat State Park at Waterfall Gully Road, BASS STRAIT The Coastal Walk Chinamans Alloc BROWNS Point Includes cliff top tracks and beach walking C787 Creek Two Bays Walking Track meanders through several streets to a Rosebud Merricks Coolart Wetlands & Homestead

30km from Cape Schanck to Portsea Surf Manton ROAD South Beach

Beach CREEK shire reserve, Gardens Road, Hyslop’s Road and then through the ROAD SNWORB POINT LEO magnificent Mornington Peninsula National Park. ROAD Rye Ocean Beach MAIN Main Two Bays Walking Track Splitters Ridge SHANDS ROAD ROAD SHOREHAM BALDRY’S CROSSING CIRCUIT WALKS Varies from steep gravel sections over Arthurs Main Waterholes ROAD Seat to undulating tracks through Greens Bush BALDRYS FLINDERS - SOMERS STREET Two ROAD

ROAD 26km from Dromana on Port Phillip via 3.6km circuit includes a creek crossing, moist fern gullies and Creek COASTAL RESERVE Bushrangers Bay to Cape Schanck MORNINGTON Rye Ocean Beach Greens Bush contrasting drier forest. A 1.6km option is a short but rewarding MAIN RIDGE MORNINGTON PENINSULA ENOTSEMIL HYSLOPS N.C.R. ROAD The Mornington Peninsula Walk NATIONAL PARK Boneo GREENS walk through eucalypt woodland. DAOR FRANKSTON WALK DISTANCE GRADE

SANDY Creek LONG POINT CIRCUIT Experience the diversity of the Arthurs Seat Circuit Walk 1.8km easy BASS MEADOWS DAOR Baldrys Point Leo 4km circuit walk leads you through eucalypt forest with bracken BOULEVARD Crossing T.C. McKellar Circuit Walk 1km easy Southern Peninsula from bay to bush, syrdlaB C777 Shoreham tiucriC Cotton Kings Falls Circuit Walk 1km easy-medium understorey, before opening to views across grasslands and gullies cape to point. The walk can be completed in St Andrews Beach St Andrews MORNINGTON PENINSULA kcarT Beach NATIONAL PARK Lookout Hill Circuit Walk 1km easy of coast banksia and blackwood. Track Honeysuckle Point DAOR FLINDERS sections or approximately 100km continuous ROAD (Greens Bush) PARADISE O.T. Dam Circuit Walk 3km easy-medium Creek BUSHRANGERS BAY walk linking the following: DRIVE Lightwood St Andrews Beach Rosebud South Street Section 5km easy DAORSNOSRETTAP 5km track to Cape Schanck via Bushrangers Bay. Follow the Musk Tree

Creek Baldry’s Circuit/s 3.6km & 1.6km easy Two Bays Walking Track Creek staircase to the sandy beach which is formed by Main Creek and Walking Creek C777 Long Point Circuit 4km easy surrounded by basalt cliffs. ROAD Flinders Bight Coastal Walk Bushrangers Bay Nature Walk 5km medium

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Greens Bush Creek Creek Fingal Beach 2 km medium-hard BLOWHOLE TRACK Gunnamatta Beach MORNINGTON PENINSULA Point Nepean Walks NATIONAL PARK FLINDERS 1.2km return from the car park at Boneo Road, where huge Gunnamatta Beach Blowhole Track 1.2km return medium tnioP bluestone boulders meet the sea. The blowhole is at the end of Bay Trail Long Bridgewater Blairgowrie circuit 2km easy Track

Elephant Rock. Take care walking over the boulders and watch Bays Spring Lifesaving Track 11 km easy-medium for large ocean swells. Cape MEAKINS Coppins Track 3km easy Schanck C787 Coppins Lookout to Sphinx Rock 1.7km easy-medium BONEO Fingal Beach Main Tea Tree Double FINGAL BEACH Creek Farnsworth Track 1.5km easy Two Main Creek Picnic Area 2. THE COASTAL WALK Fingal Picnic Area ROAD 2km return with some steep sections through dense coastal Highfield Wilsons Folly Track 1.7km easy

vegetation, with lookouts to vantage points and spectacular views lagniF Creek 1.5km from Point Nepean Creek Tea Tree Creek Quarantine Station easy kcarT Information Centre of basalt cliffs at Selwyn’s Fault. At low , Fingal beach Creek Flinders Kennon Cove Stockyard West Head GOLF LINKS Range Area Walk 1.8km easy is exposed but always check before setting out. ROAD Cape Schanck Visitor Area ROAD C777 Walter Pisterman Heritage Walk 1km return easy MORNINGTON PENINSULA BLOWHOLE Flinders TRACK GUNNAMATTA TO ST ANDREWS SCHANCK NATIONAL PARK MORNINGTON PENINSULA Ocean Beach Track West Head 5.2km from Point Nepean NATIONAL PARK Walk easy-medium Includes some beach walking with rock pools and reefs at low tide. MUSHROOM Information Centre Burrabong Flinders Ocean Beach Cairns Bay MARINE SANCTUARY Popular surfing and fishing beach CAPE Bay The Blowhole Bushrangers Bay Picnic Area Bushrangers Simmons Bay BRIDGEWATER BAY, BLAIRGOWRIE 4. THE BAY TRAIL BushrangersBushrangers BBayay 2km return circular walk starts at St Johns Wood Road car park, CAPE SCHANCK 26km from Dromana on Port Phillip Bay via Bushrangers Bay to LIGHTHOUSE Picnic Point overlooks rugged Bridgewater Bay and returns on a sheltered RESERVE 28km Portsea to Dromana. This is one of the most scenic shared Cape Schanck. You’ll walk through a great variety of habitats as Cape Schanck coastal bush track. use trails on the Peninsula. Through foreshores and camping you cross the Peninsula, including steep gravel sections around grounds from Portsea to Dromana, it winds its way past piers Wilson’s Folly Track at London Bridge takes you into Point Nepean WALTER PISTERMAN HERITAGE WALK Arthurs Seat and gently undulating tracks through Greens Bush, LIFESAVING TRACK and jetties, swimming beaches and charming shopping villages and 3. POINT NEPEAN WALKS National Park and to the tip of famous Point Nepean. Visit the 1km return starts at Gunners Cottage passing Point Nepean the largest remnant bushland on the Peninsula. There are also 11km track constructed in the 1890s to provide quick access to beachside homes along Point Nepean Road. Easy walking with historic Quarantine Station, explore historic fortifications and gun Cemetery to the remnants of the former quarantine cattle jetty short walks from the main track. the coast after two disastrous shipwrecks. Vantage points at the varying surfaces. (Please note: there are some short sections of emplacements, Moonah woodlands, enjoy views of Bass Strait and where there is a picnic area and views of the bay. Stroll through Blue Wren symbols identify you are on ‘Two Bays Track’ Bay of Islands and St Paul’s Lookout provide fine coastal views. alternative track and beach walking as work on the trail continues, Port Phillip Bay at the Heads. coastal vegetation to Port Phillip Bay at Observatory Point with Orange arrows indicate ‘through’ track Head further west to Koonya Ocean Beach and No 16, (the 16th including a section between Sorrento and Rye). Blue arrows indicate a ‘circuit’ walk lifesaving point). Short detours to Diamond Bay, Jubilee Point and WILSONS FOLLY TRACK views of Port Phillip Heads. ARTHURS SEAT CIRCUIT WALK St Paul’s. 1.7km track links London Bridge in the Mornington Peninsula CHEVIOT HILL AND MEMORIAL Easy 1.8km circuit guides you to the highlights around Arthurs Seat DIAMOND BAY, SORRENTO National Park with Point Nepean National Park. Cheviot Hill is the highest point of Point Nepean, with World summit and Seawinds Gardens. Steps to Diamond Bay and stunning views from St Paul’s Lookout The track is an extension of the Coastal Walk from Cape Schanck. War II fortifications. Walk the track up to the hilltop which overlooks Cheviot Beach, the site where former Australian Prime SEAWINDS 30km hike from Cape Schanck to London Bridge at Portsea, COPPINS TRACK QUARANTINE STATION featuring clifftop tracks with magnificent views of surf, sand, 1.5km from the Information Centre. Minister Harold Holt disappeared in 1967. A memorial is located These delightful gardens are just a short walk from the summit of 3km historic track winds its way along cliff tops from Diamond Bay, 500 metres from Cheviot Hill. Arthurs Seat and provide access to several walks including Two tidal rock pools and dense coastal scrub. Long beach walks are with original 1800s paved footpath. Spectacular coastal Wander around the historic site which was established in 1852 included, and short tracks inland provide exit points along the way.. Bays Walking Track. Seawinds is a popular attraction in all seasons. views. to protect the colony of Melbourne from ship borne diseases. AND EAGLES NEST From the 1950s the buildings also housed the Army Officer Explore the lookouts from the fortifications with stunning views T.C. MCKELLAR CIRCUIT WALK Hooded Plover symbols identify you are on ‘The Coastal Walk’ Orange markers indicate ‘through’ track COPPINS LOOKOUT Cadet School. of Bass Strait, the Pearce Barracks site where army personnel lived 1km track from Seawinds Gardens’ information shelter. Loop return 0.5km, or add 1.2km loop to Sphinx Rock. Short Blue markers indicate a ‘circuit’ walk RANGE AREA WALK and the location of ’s largest Disappearing Gun. circuit walk from Sorrento Life Saving Club via Coppins Lookout KINGS FALLS CIRCUIT WALK CAPE SCHANCK The 1.8 kilometre walk meanders through coastal scrub, a former FORT NEPEAN 1km circuit starts just off Two Bays Walking Track (near Waterfall rotunda. On a clear day you can see along the coast from Cape Follow the walking track from the kiosk towards the Cape via the Rifle Range and passes Monash Break and Light with sweeping 5.2km from the Information Centre. Gully Road) and leads to Kings Falls, which flow for most of the year. Schanck to the Otway’s and Dandenong Ranges. wooden staircase and boardwalk, descending to the beach and views of the park and Melbourne City. The Range Area was Contains a series of military fortifications dating back to the 1880s LOOKOUT HILL CIRCUIT WALK rock platform. Lookouts give spectacular views over the geological FARNSWORTH TRACK used to train cadets in the Army Officer Cadet School; training with stunning views of Port Phillip Bay and Bass Strait. Explore the 1km walk begins at the end of Eaton’s Cutting Road and takes in formations of Pulpit Rock and Devils Desk, which were created 3km return scenic walk along clifftops from Portsea Surf Beach included firing rifles, grenades and machine guns. The walk links tunnels, forts and gun emplacements from which the first allied some spectacular scenery, including distant views to Melbourne. over millions of years. car park to London Bridge. the Quarantine Station and Cheviot Hill. shots of both World War I and World War II were fired