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The Stony Point jetty and ferry across Western Port to French Island in the distance
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Stony Point

The Stony Point jetty and ferry across Western Port to French Island in the distance

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Stony Point is the southern terminus of the Stony Point railway line on the Mornington Peninsula's Western Port coast, 85 km from Melbourne, with a working fishing jetty and a passenger ferry to French Island and Phillip Island.

Stony Point is the smallest possible village - a jetty, a ferry terminal, a railway terminus, a fishermen's hut or two - and one of the most useful addresses on the Peninsula. The ferry from the jetty runs across Western Port to French Island and on to Cowes on Phillip Island, which makes Stony Point one of the few places on mainland Victoria you can step off a train and onto a boat. There is no town to wander - the village is barely a village - but the working pier is a real fishing community and the views across to French Island catch the afternoon light beautifully. Park here, walk the jetty, take the ferry, or just sit on the pier with fish and chips brought down from Hastings. Stony Point is a transit point that rewards being treated as a destination for a few hours.

The only point in Victoria where you step off a train and onto a ferry across Western Port.

Peninsula Insider - editor's note

Is Stony Point the right base?

Who this place rewards - and who should keep driving

It's for

  • ferry day trippers
  • carless travellers
  • French Island visitors

It's not for

  • anyone expecting a village to wander
  • those needing services on arrival

Trying to find a café - Stony Point is a jetty, not a village.

Stony Point in brief

Stony Point in 5 points

  1. 01 Stony Point is a jetty, a ferry terminal and a train terminus - the rare Australian point where you step off a train and onto a boat.
  2. 02 Best for: French Island day trippers; Phillip Island connectors; carless travellers who want to leave the car at Frankston.
  3. 03 Signature experience: train to Stony Point, ferry to French Island for a cycle, ferry back, fish and chips on the jetty.
  4. 04 Half a day for the ferry loop; a full day including French Island.
  5. 05 There is nothing to eat at the terminal - bring it from Hastings.

A perfect day here

A day in Stony Point

Morning train from Frankston, ferry across to French Island, hire a bike at Tankerton, late ferry back, fish and chips on the jetty waiting for the train home.

Check the ferry timetable carefully - sailings are limited and tide-dependent, and missing the last boat back is a long taxi from Cowes.

- Editor's note

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Stony Point on the Peninsula

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Western Port · village

Crib Point

Crib Point sits halfway between Hastings and Stony Point on the Western Port shoreline, a small village built around a navy history that quietly defined it for most of the twentieth century - HMAS Cerberus is its southern neighbour and the largest naval base in the country. The village is residential, with a station on the Stony Point train line and a few low-key streets that lead down to Woolleys Beach, a small shaded swimming pocket that locals know about and almost no visitors do. The Western Port coast here is mangrove and mudflat country, and walking south along the foreshore toward Stony Point at low tide is one of the better long, flat coastal walks on the Peninsula. Come here for the walks and the train; stay in Hastings for the meal.

Western Port · town

Hastings

Hastings sits on the eastern, working side of the Peninsula - the Western Port side, with its mangroves, mudflats, and fishing fleet. It is not a tourist town and never has tried to be, which is exactly what makes it useful. The fishermen's co-op here supplies some of the best seafood in Melbourne, the mussel farms offshore are among the largest sustainable producers in Australia, and if you are driving back from French Island or heading down to Flinders the long way round, Hastings is the place to stop for fish and chips eaten on the pier. The town itself is unvarnished in a way the western Peninsula no longer is, and that counts for something.

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