Portsea Golf Club is the classic Peninsula member's club at the tip. Founded in 1924, it carries genuine Australian golf heritage and plays through some of the most spectacular clifftop terrain any Melbourne golfer will see without boarding a plane. The par-3 holes along the Bass Strait edge are the signature — visually, they are hard to beat. Access is the issue. Portsea is a members' club, and non-member play depends on reciprocal rights, member invitations, or specific corporate days. Unlike Sorrento Golf Club (which accepts more casual visitor play), Portsea maintains a tighter door policy. For the right golfer with the right connection, it is one of the most satisfying rounds on the Peninsula. For everyone else, the course matters more as part of the Peninsula golf landscape than as a bookable option. Complementary courses to consider for public-access play in the same area: The Dunes (20 minutes) or St Andrews Beach (20 minutes).
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Point Nepean National Park, Portsea VIC 3944 · $
Forty-six pre-pitched canvas tents inside Point Nepean National Park, September to April, from $115 a night, inside the historic quarantine station precinct.
3746 Point Nepean Rd, Portsea VIC 3944 · $$
The front-row pub on Port Phillip, still the cleanest long lunch at the tip of the Peninsula.
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Coppins Track runs four kilometres from Sorrento Ocean Beach through clifftop coastal heathland to Diamond Bay, following a route threaded with a century of local history. Interpretive signage along the way reads the landscape for you: the Peninsula's quarantine era, the military history of the area, the natural history of the heath. Diamond Bay is a small, almost-always-empty beach at the far end and an excellent turnaround point for a round trip. The track is more than a walk; it is one of the best ways to understand how this stretch of the Peninsula actually came to look the way it does. Coastal erosion, endemic flora, and the old paths between bays are all visible as you move through. Allow around 2.5 hours return. Best in the cooler months - the exposed heath gets hot in summer midday.
Open the guide →The Farnsworth Track is the Peninsula's most efficient clifftop-view-to-effort ratio: 1.5 kilometres one way between Portsea Ocean Beach and London Bridge, with dramatic Bass Strait cliff views at almost every point along the walk. Walk one way and return along the beach (tide permitting) for a satisfying short circuit, or push on west to Coppins Track for a longer day. This is the walk you do when you have an hour to fill and want the ocean properly in front of you. The track is well-formed, the gradient is forgiving, and the payoff comes quickly. London Bridge itself - a weathered limestone arch in the rock - is the natural turnaround point and worth the short detour off the main track. Good in almost any weather. The clifftop is exposed, so dress for the wind.
Open the guide →Point Nepean rewards people who are happy to walk a little further than the average Peninsula day-tripper. The road and paths out toward Fort Nepean unfold through old quarantine buildings, scrub, and cliff-edge lookouts before the whole place gives way to bunkers and artillery emplacements looking straight across the Heads. It is a history lesson, a coastline walk, and a very good excuse to leave Sorrento for the afternoon. Hire bikes if you want to cover more ground, but walking keeps the mood right.
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2 May 2026
Portsea is the Peninsula's quiet final note — more private than Sorrento, less immediately legible, and better for visitors who already know how to read the tip. Come for Point Nepean, the back beaches and one of the most withheld village atmospheres in Victoria.
22 April 2026
Free vehicle and pedestrian entry. Fort Nepean on foot (~3km) or by hop-on hop-off shuttle (~$12 adult). 50+ heritage-listed buildings. Swimming at the Quarantine Station. Two all-terrain beach wheelchairs free to borrow. Dogs not permitted.
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