Click on the high resolution 2007 photo above for an enlargement to view various details of interest.

PPCC Inc's 1983 campaign saved Mothers' Beach (top right of photo) from the obnoxious concept of a "sea restaurant".

The foreground shows the beleaguered Schnapper Point, with its attractive red-brown rock and remnant indigenous vegetation, but partly bounded by filled sea to its north, and discordant white rubble on its southern shore. It is surmounted by a stark, and very large, stone monument to Lt Commander Matthew Flinders, RN.

PPCC Inc's 1991 campaign stopped a 150-boat marina, involving jam-packed, wall-to-wall boats and car parking.

Mornington Environment Association Inc's campaign against the 2004 Yacht Club plan to replace the present 65 widely-spaced yacht swing moorings with concrete pens and access paths for 180 yachts and power boats succeeded on 2012-02-21.

A 210-metre concrete "wave screen" would have run east-west. The main pier would have been screened more from wave action. Natural scouring would have lessened, with silting and putrescence increasing. Doubling boat capacity would have meant more car parking. The scene across water, and from Schnapper Point, would have much more resembled an industrial area.

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