Bellarine Peninsula Attractions

The Bellarine Peninsula is the counterpart to the Mornington Peninsula on the west side of Port Phillip Bay. Throughout the year - except in bad weather - there are ferry services across the Rip, the narrow entrance (only 2.7km across) to the bay, between Queenscliff on the Bellarine Peninsula and Portsea and Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula. Like the Mornington Peninsula, the Bellarine Peninsula is a favorite holiday area with the people of Melbourne and Geelong, with facilities for water sports of all kinds. During the season the population of the little towns on the peninsula is multiplied many times.

In 1802 Matthew Flinders, one of the first Europeans to pass this way, landed on Indented Head, 6km east of Portarlington, and in 1835 John Batman and his companions, coming from Tasmania, landed here in their quest for new grazing land.