Port Phillip Heads

I came here on a whim! It was going to be a dry (and sunny!) day according to the weathermen so I decided to go out into the country again. Using public transport can make this challenging and when I got to where the buses went from (an hours train ride from central Melbourne), I found that I'd just missed the one that I was aiming to catch and rather than wait that long, I got on the bus to Portsea. It stopped outside the Point Nepean Park and so I decided that this was where I would go. What I didn't know until I got in there was that there was a 2.6 km walk to the "car park" (most people either drove up to this point or got the transporter- a tractor pulling a couple of carriages- which I'd just missed! So I walked all the way up (and most of it was up) to the top and Fort Nepean which overlooks the entrance to Port Phillip Bay. On the left, the water is the Bass Strait, on the right it is Port Phillip Bay. The Fort that once stood here (and the remains are still there to explore) protected Melbourne and the waterway from invaders. I was surprised that these fortifications dated back to the 1870s. I knew that they had been there for the World Wars but hadn't realised that there was a perceived threat before that.

It was an interesting, if windswept, place and I'm glad I ended up there. Amazingly, despite the glowering skies at times, it didn't rain.