This popular beach is a great location to explore the national park’s wide sandy beaches and naturally weathered cliffs. Popular activities include surfing, swimming, …
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Portsea Ocean Beach, lower car park (photo Kim Cott)
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View towards Cape Schanck from Portsea (photo: Kim Cott)
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Portsea Ocean Beach (photo: Kim Cott)
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Coastline from a lookout at Portsea Ocean Beach (photo: Kim Cott)
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This popular beach is a great location to explore the national park’s wide sandy beaches and naturally weathered cliffs.
Popular activities include surfing, swimming, walking and ocean fishing. The beach is patrolled during summer and school holidays. Refer to regulations and only swim between the flags.
Facilities include four large car parks with two toilet blocks, including an observation car park with lookouts and spectacular views of the coast.
Food is often available at a kiosk at the surf lifesaving club during summer holiday periods.
Hooded Plovers
The Mornington Peninsula National Parks is home to a number of vulnerable native species including the nationally significant Hooded Plover. Portsea is a great place to spot these very small, well camouflaged shorebirds which feed in the intertidal zone.
The Plovers lay their eggs directly onto the sand between the high-tide mark and the foredune. You can help their plight by avoiding the soft sand near the dunes, keeping away from nest sites and only walking your dog on a leash close to the water’s edge during permitted times.
Accessibility information
There is designated disabled parking at the Lower, Middle, Upper and Observation carparks.
There are accessible toilet facilities at the Lower and Middle carparks.
Beach access from the four carparks is either not available or via a steep path.
More information about the facilities at Portsea Ocean Beach is available by clicking on the links in the left hand side menu.
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Firewood collection at Cobram closes
07 Jun 2013
Parks Victoria advises the designated firewood collection area at Big Toms Beach near Cobram will close on Thursday 6 June. Parks Victoria Yarrawonga Ranger Team Leader John Hutchison said Bigs Toms was opened as a designated firewood collection area for the community in April after the tornado that devastated north east …