Location: Victoria < Australia
Nearest Airport:
Melbourne at 115
Kilometres
Nearest Ferry:
Queenscliff at 2
Kilometres
Nearest Beach:
Portsea at 500
Metres
Car: recommended
Portsea is situated at the tip of the Mornington Peninsula. Its end-of-the-road location and cathedral-like canopy of trees sets the scene for the million dollar mansions inhabited on weekends and during holidays by Melbourne’s rich and famous.
Although the town faces over the calm waters of Port Phillip Bay, the land is so narrow at this point that the town extends from the calm waters of the bay across to the surf beaches on the ocean side.
Portsea also borders the Point Nepean section of the Mornington Peninsula National Park where visitors can explore a fascinating labyrinth of tunnels and fortifications guarding Port Phillip heads since the 1880s.