The famous 1887 painting, Slumbering Sea, Mentone, by Tom Roberts,

now on permanent display in the National Gallery of Victoria.

The constantly eroding, unstable white clay cliffs in the distance, with the Dandenong Ranges seen above them, were sloped back in the 1930s and vegetated, and a basalt block sea wall was built in front of them.

The Victorian Government, in the 1960s, let the Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron fill the adjacent waters of Port Phillip Bay, and the public foreshore here - despite its status as a Permanent Public Recreation Reserve - to form its private clubhouse and grounds. BMYS now has a 21-year lease of the filled area.

The filled area is an enclave in the Beaumaris Bay Fossil Site (Identifier 18053 on the Register of the National Estate) and was partly excised from Beach Park (a Permanent Public Recreation Reserve since 1906) by a retrograde 1994 Act of Victoria’s Parliament; near Ray Street, BEAUMARIS.

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