Mornington Peninsula

We spent Saturday, January 17 down on the Mornington Peninsula. It is an hour and a half southeast of Melbourne and has fantastic beaches on the bay side and beautiful surf on the Bass Strait side. We stopped for lunch close to Sorrento Beach. On the way to the beach, Brooklyn came across a large snake and quickly ran back to join us. John saw the tail disappearing, but wouldn't go and investigate, which was a good thing, because out of the 25 most venomous snakes in the world Australia is home to 21 of them.

We went out to Point Nepean National Park where we used the transporter service (a glorified name for a tractor pulling carts!) to go out to Fort Nepean and see the narrow channel where ships come into the bay. The views were amazing, but the flies were obnoxious.

In low tide, the shipping channel is less than 100 yards wide.

After our history lesson out at Fort Nepean we went out to the London Bridge, another rock formation with an arch that has been formed by the ocean. The surf here was spectacular (a very good place to land surf), but very dangerous. In fact, it is so dangerous that in 1967, Australia's prime minister went swimming here and is believed to have drowned although a body was never found.