Pix of April 15 2014.

This was a 2 km coastal hike, many interesting things on the beach, and hang gliders flying through the air from the cliff top!
 

Sorry about the seal.

Click here to see all of the Photos of my visit, in Slideshow or Static format!

Flinders Ocean Beach - coastal hike in the big storm!

I visited the Flinders Ocean Beach on August 5 2012, 80 km south of Melbourne, in the Mornington Peninsula National Park.

My 2 km coastal hike was a difficult undertaking due to a tremendous gale blowing in from Bass Strait, and huge waves.

It was also bitterly cold!

But I survived, despite my training shoes filling with seawater...!

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Flinders Ocean Beach - Westernport Bay

These pix were taken on May 29 2012, on a 3 km beachhike along the Flinders Ocean Beach, 90 km south of Melbourne.

Check out the YouTube video (above!)

The weather was terrible - wild winds, rain from Westernport Bay, cold, and bleak. I got soaked!

Flinders Ocean Beach - coastal hike

These photos were taken on Thursday October 28, 2010, at Flinders Coast, 80 km south of Melbourne.

They show the Ocean Beach, the Cliffs,and  the Jetty, on a 3 km beach hike.

See all of my Photos, which include some black/white images which I took on January 13, 1952, from the same locations. This was on a beachwalk from to Flinders, an activity organized by the YMCA, based at Camp Buxton, Shoreham, at a ten-day camp for disadvantaged boys, which I was attending.

Flinders Ocean Beach and Mushroom Reef

Located on the open Ocean Beach at Flinders on the Mornington Peninsula and covering 80 hectares in area, Mushroom Reef Marine Sanctuary supports the most diverse intertidal rocky reef communities in Victoria. The Marine Sanctuary comprises an extensive rock platform, with sheltered rock pools and coves protected by a shallow reef on the ocean side.

Flinders is about 80 km south of Melbourne and the Ocean Beach is part of the Mornington Peninsula National Park.

I visited the Sanctuary on Tuesday afternoon November 3, 2009.

From the car park at West Head Lookout, my 3 km return route took me down the steps to the Beach. From there, I walked past the exposed Reef, to the cliffs at the western end.

I returned the same way, with a short diversion to inspect the old sheds overlooking the Beach, near the viewing platform.

See all of the Photos of my visit, which includes one I took on January 12, 1952, looking west along the Beach. This was part of a beach walk from Shoreham to Flinders, as part of a 10-day summer holiday activity organized by the YMCA, at Camp Buxton, Shoreham.

The camera I used in 1952 was a Box Brownie, and it is still in good working condition.

For further information about the Sanctuary, please visit:

http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/resources05/05_0785.pdf