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Copyright 1998 Port
Phillip Conservation Council Inc. (A0020093K Victoria)
ABN 46 291 176 191
Oblique Aerial Colour
Prints of Port Phillip Bay
Coast from 150 m
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Click on any of the 24
thumbnail sample photographs (three of the many in each table) below for an
enlargement of that photo.
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Click on a blue
hyperlink for more details.
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Click on a blue, underlined
Table letter A-H for one of the 8 ORDER FORM TABLES
covering the purchasable colour prints of the corresponding sections of
coast shown (thick black line on pale blue sketch of Port Phillip). 1,422 photographs
are listed. A grouping of the photographs by municipalities
is also shown.
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Tables A-H have hyperlinks
to enable you to view some 130 captioned colour
photographs of coastal views distributed right around the Bay. They
include the photographs shown as thumbnails below.
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PPCC Inc.
gratefully acknowledges a 1997-98 Victorian Government COAST
ACTION/COASTCARE grant, a Commonwealth Government Volunteer Assistance
grant, and the work donated by the professional photographers Rudie & Alison
Kuiter.
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Table A:
Patterson River,
CARRUM
to
Quiet Corner,
BLACK ROCK
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A1. Extensive
bitumen car parks covering foreshore near Gnotuk Avenue, ASPENDALE
Kingston City Council Area
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A2.
The mouth of the Mordialloc Creek, MORDIALLOC
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Member Organization M9
Kingston City Council Area
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A3.
Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron: National Estate 'Fossil Site'
enclave; also partly excised from Beach Park
(a Permanent Public Recreation Reserve since 1906) by a 1994 Act of the
Victorian Parliament. Near Ray
Street, BEAUMARIS
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Member Organization M8
Bayside City Council Area
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Table B:
Quiet Corner,
BLACK
ROCK
to
Lava
Blister, WILLIAMSTOWN
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B1.
Green Point and the Cenotaph, the
site of a proposed commercial restaurant or 'Teahouse', and the Dr Jim Willis
Reserve, a dunes area nearby to the left, with important indigenous
vegetation. BRIGHTON
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Member Organization M30
Bayside City Council Area
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B2.
St Kilda Pier, showing the effect, on sand
build-up and depletion, of the rock groyne at the shore end of the
pier.
To the
right is the $42M Sea Baths. Its Car Park is to have two levels underground,
and with the Land (St Kilda Sea Baths)
Act 2000 overriding
the Crown Lands (Reserves) Act 1978, a 45-year lease instead of the
normal maximum of 21 years.
Behind
it is the historic white low-rise Esplanade Hotel, site for a lapsed
38-storey building proposal in 1998. ST KILDA
Port Phillip City Council Area
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B3.
Parks Victoria is developing the large area of public open space here,
and to the left, into the Point
Gellibrand Coastal
Heritage Park.
It wisely proposes to relocate the present intrusive coastal road, which is
almost on the beach, to instead run along the inland boundary of the Park,
and thus produce a large vehicle-free coast zone. A major heritage value is
the grey, stone Time Ball Tower, built in 1852. Its surroundings,
apart from the sea, and a little remnant and accreted beach, and patches of
indigenous foreshore and hinterland vegetation, still include unsightly sheds
and tanks, and extensive unprotected public land with a grim foreshore car
park. They provide stark visual evidence of long term neglect of, and
indifference to, the significant historical and remaining natural character
of the area. It is hoped that removal of exotic plants, and restoration of
indigenous coastal plants will occur. WILLIAMSTOWN
Hobsons Bay City Council Area
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Table C:
Lava Blister, WILLIAMSTOWN
to
Point Wilson
Jetty, AVALON
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C1. 'The Jawbone':
valuable, intact mangrove and samphire plant community,
protected for many decades by the rifle range formerly on the land behind it.
It is within 10 km of central Melbourne.
WILLIAMSTOWN
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Member Organization M2
Hobsons Bay City Council Area
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C2.
Campbell's Cove. Unregulated shacks on Crown Land
reserve. They lack legal security of tenure, but the keys to them change
hands for tens of thousands of dollars, relying on their long period of
undisturbed occupancy without official action against them. POINT COOK
Wyndham City Council Area
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C3.
Southern end of The Spit. The saltmarsh, which
appears as the dark green vegetation bordering the sea, is a major winter
habitat for the endangered Orange-bellied Parrot (Neophema chrysogaster),and
is protected by its National Estate registration,
and international treaties such as Ramsar, the CAMBA, the JAMBAand others. AVALON
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Member Organization M17
Greater Geelong City Council Area
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Table D:
Point Wilson,
AVALON
to
Cantata Way,
CLIFTON
SPRINGS
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D1.
Recent construction of conspicuous aquacultural
works on the coast just east of Point Lillias, not long after this area
escaped having a controversial major chemical storage facility relocated
there from a long-established site at Coode
Island near the lower Yarra River. AVALON
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Member Organization M17
Greater Geelong City Council Area
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D2. Limeburner's Bay,
estuary of Hovell's Creek, with extensive mangroves (Avicennia
marina) near the southern-most end of their range in the world;
and end of Hume and Hovell's historic walk from Sydney in 1824.
Lieutenant Matthew
Flinders RN climbed Station
Peak beyond (a granite
outcrop 300 metres high) in 1802. Nearly all the shore still has a very
wide, vegetated set-back free of structures. HOVELL PARK
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Member Organization M17
Greater Geelong City Council Area
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D3.
Northern tip of Point Henry, just north of the large
aluminium smelter there, showing how unregulated car parking is
destroying the remaining vegetation, including indigenous coastal vegetation.
POINT HENRY
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Member Organization M17
Greater Geelong City Council Area
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Table E:
Beacon Point Reserve, CLIFTON SPRINGS
to
Shortland's
Bluff, QUEENSCLIFF
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E1. Beacon Point Reserve: bizarre road near to edge of
cliff, bleak nature of reserve and eroded cliff follows unfortunate long
history as grazing land right to edge of cliff.
CLIFTON
SPRINGS
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Member Organization M17
Greater Geelong City Council Area
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E2.
One of the few areas of extensive coastal open
space left on Port Phillip. It is a pressing case for open space reservation.
It is just west of Point Richards, the area to which the supposedly dormant Port Bellarine Tourist
Resort Act 1981
applies. PORTARLINGTON
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Member Organization M17
Greater Geelong City Council Area
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E3.
The Cut, a channel for boating purposes, cut
through the north of the peninsula on which the historic township of Queenscliff
is sited, and connecting Swan
Bay with Port Phillip.
QUEENSCLIFF
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Member Organization M17
Queenscliffe Borough Council Area
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Table F:
Point Nepean, PORTSEA
to
Rosebud
Parade, ROSEBUD
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F1.
Point Franklin: Lord Mayor of Melbourne's
Holiday Camp for Children, attractive limestone cliffs and sandy
beaches, with clear water frequently replenished from Bass
Strait, via The Rip. PORTSEA
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Member Organization M14
Mornington Peninsula
Shire Council Area
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F2. Foreshore
near Point King, with cliff to west of it devegetated in Winter 1998.
SORRENTO
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Member Organization M14
Mornington Peninsula
Shire Council Area
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F3.
The coast at Rye Pier, with extensive provision
for boat launching and trailer parking. The rock revetment at the beach end
of the pier interrupts the natural sand movement along the beach, and has led
to an undesirable absence of sand on the eastern side. Napier Street, RYE
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Member Organization M25
Mornington Peninsula
Shire Council Area
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Table G:
Jetty Road,
ROSEBUD
to
Mouth of Caraar
Creek, MORNINGTON
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G1.
Tassell's Creek and Balcombe Creek are the two
largest creeks on the Mornington
Peninsula's Port
Phillip coast. Neither has lost its nearby open space nor had its
principal character transformed into a conduit for boats. A 10-year-old
dormant scheme is being reactivated to convert the creek and its nearby open
space to a vast residential marina. Plans include a waterway dug back 1.5 km,
and a breakwater in Port Phillip. It will industrialize and
suburbanize this last gap in continuous Balcombe Creek-Portsea
suburbia. A new EES is needed.
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Member Organization M25
Mornington Peninsula
Shire Council Area
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G2.
Extensive indigenous regrowth has colonized the
great variety of niches at the former municipal quarry at Mt Martha. Massive
impoverishment and occupation of the terrain outside the quarry now leaves
the quarry as a refuge for indigenous plants and animals. Its
vegetated cliffs complement Port Phillip's rugged coastal scenery here, and
it provides a variation of environment from the remaining blanket spread of
buildings, very much better than proposed building developments, with their roofs,
walls, windows, roadways and lights would.
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Member Organization M28
Mornington Peninsula
Shire Council Area
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G3. Mouth of Caraar Creek, with much surrounding tree
cover and open space, but new prominent houses keep arising. MORNINGTON
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Member Organization M28
Mornington Peninsula
Shire Council Area
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Table H:
Sunnyside Beach,
MT
ELIZA
to
Johnson Avenue,
CARRUM
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H1.
Moondah Beach, showing the visual impact on the narrow coastal
reserve of a 2.5 metre white masonry wall being permitted to be built on the
boundary of that reserve. If that can happen so blatantly, much more of it
can easily follow. MOUNT
ELIZA
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Member Organization M12
Mornington Peninsula
Shire Council Area
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H2.
The coast at Oliver's Hill. A 1998 proposal to
build a large marina here would involve filling in many hectares of the Bay
in front of this cliff, and would have a very large shed built in front of
it. FRANKSTON
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Member Organization M29
Frankston City Council Area
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H3. Indigenous coastal bushland on the well managed
and relatively wide Foreshore Reserve, but with unnecessary stresses
due to commercial zoning being too close, at Seaford Road. SEAFORD
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Member Organization M31
Frankston City Council Area
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