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Copyright 1998 Port Phillip Conservation
Council Inc. (A0020093K
ABN 46 291 176 191
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Oblique Aerial Colour Prints of
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Click on any of the 24 thumbnail sample photographs (three of the many in each table) below to see an enlarged form of that photograph. |
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Click on the blue, underlined text under any photograph to see further details relevant to that photograph. |
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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 links 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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Patterson River, CARRUM to Quiet Corner, BLACK ROCK |
A1.
Extensive bitumen car parks covering foreshore
near Gnotuk Avenue, ASPENDALE
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A2. The mouth of the
Mordialloc Creek, MORDIALLOC
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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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Quiet
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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 |
B2. St Kilda
Pier, showing the effect, on sand build-up and depletion, of the rock
groyne at the shore end of the pier. |
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 |
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Lava
Blister, WILLIAMSTOWN |
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 |
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
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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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Point
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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 Contact PPCC
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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 Contact PPCC
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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 Contact PPCC Inc.
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Beacon
Point Reserve, CLIFTON SPRINGS |
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
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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 |
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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Point
Nepean, PORTSEA |
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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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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Jetty
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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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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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G3. Mouth of Caraar Creek, with much
surrounding tree cover and open space, but new prominent houses keep
arising. MORNINGTON
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Sunnyside
Beach,
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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 |
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 Contact PPCC
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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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