French Island National Park
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Local Directions
Take the passenger ferry from Stony Point across to French Island. (Bookings (03) 9585 5730). The trip takes 10-12 minutes, and delivers you to Tankerton jetty on French Island. The Ranger Station is next to the pier (Melway ref: 612 P9).
Take the passenger ferry from Stony Point across to French Island. (Bookings (03) 9585 5730). The trip takes 10-12 minutes, and delivers you to Tankerton jetty on French Island. The Ranger Station is next to the pier (Melway ref: 612 P9).
Recommended Destinations
Arthurs Seat State ParkRising above the Mornington Peninsula, Arthurs Seat is the most familiar of all Port Phillip Bay landscape features. It's 314 metre summit, reached by road, chairlift or foot, gives spectacular views of the bay and Port Phillip Heads.
Collins Settlement Historic SiteCollins Settlement Historic Site, Sullivan Bay, just east of Sorrento, is the place where Lieutenant Colonel David Collins, accompanied by civil officers, marines, free settlers and 229 convicts landed in October 1803.
Coolart Wetlands and HomesteadCoolart is a magnificent late Victorian mansion situated on the shores of Westernport. In the superb grounds are ever-changing wetlands that you can view from the observatory, and a lagoon where thousands of Australian white ibis nest every year.
Mornington Peninsula National ParkThe Mornington Peninsula National Park is a summer holidays favourite destination. See the basalt cliffs at Cape Schanck, native bushland of Greens Bush and the surf of Gunnamatta. Visit Point Nepean for to see historic fortifications and spectacular views of the Port Phillip Heads.
Nearby Towns
- TANKERTON
