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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. |
