Australia, Victoria - Mornington Peninsula/Point Nepean

The Mornington Peninsula is located to the southeast of Melbourne and consists mainly of green hinterlands and ocean beaches. There's also wineries and strawberry parks around. As we wanted to make it a short trip we decided to visit Point Napean and just stop by at whatever coastal towns we find interesting.


After dropping of my sister and niece to their classes, we took a pleasant drive across the mornington peninsula, passing by picturesque harbours and colourful wineries. I didn't manage to take pics as the side roads were marked "for emergency use only"... was driving my brother in law's car... dun wanna get him into trouble just because of some "jakun" tourist... :P. Anyway image below attributed to stickypix at flickr.

Winery along Mornington Peninsula

Anyway Point Nepean is part of the Port Philips Head National Park and it was only open to the public in 1988 as it's a military site previously. It is also infamous as it's the location where the Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt disappeared in 1969, presumed drowned. It's pretty much also a historical site as many fortifications and buildings were built since the 1800's.

Point Nepean is about from 5km from Portsea, however vehicles are not allowed to drive and it's only accessible via walking, cycling OR you can take their tractor! Michelle and I decided to take the tractor as we're not really keen on walking the 5km! and it was a wise decision... as it started pouring when we reach there.

The only vehicle allowed access to Point Nepean.

We took a walk around Fort Nepean, taking in the sights until it started pouring. We took shelter in one of the underground tunnels as we had to wait for the tractor to arrive back to pick us up!.

Sights around Point Nepean

As the weather wasn't too good for sight-seeing we decided to head back and drop by Sorrento for lunch. We stumbled upon this supposedly "world-famous" vanilla slice shop and had our lunch there. The food there was quite nice with michelle having the ....chiletto (can't remember the first name to it) and I took the standard fish and chips. The vanilla slice was a real treat too.

Vanilla slice at Just Fine Foods in Sorrento

On the way back we spotted a pier at Rye and decided to walk along there. The waters were absolutely clear.

Rye Pier

All rights that's all for now... till the next installment of the Melbourne trip series!... Cheers...