A Tour of Mornington, its Beaches, and History (Revised)

This video is the first of a series about places in Australia and their social history, or occasions and celebrations that are typically Australian. The focus will be on the social environment. This first video is about Mornington, a popular bay suburb on the Mornington Peninsula, about 44 miles or 70 kilometres southwest of Melbourne city. Besides displaying Mornington as a vibrant modern resort town, I show where the great explorer Matthew Flinders came ashore in Port Phillip Bay in 1802. Flinders was the first European to walk along the shores of the bay and the first to take survey readings from Snapper Point.