by Sangeeta Kocharekar URL Copied! There are many ways to spend a weekend visiting Bellarine Peninsula, an 85-minute drive southwest of Melbourne and 40 minutes from Avalon. You can tuck into mussels in Portarlington, snorkel at St Leonards Pier and watch boats pass through The Heads, a narrow waterway connecting the Bass Strait to the bay of Port Phillip. Or you can spend your time in the area doing as I did, walking along the beach to Point Lonsdale Lighthouse , one of three lighthouses on the peninsula, dining at winery restaurants and browsing boutiques and antique shops on Hesse Street.
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The Bellarine Peninsula covers an area that starts at Geelong and runs to Torquay, encompassing Queenscliff, Point Lonsdale, Ocean Grove, Barwon Heads, Portarlington, Indented Heads, St Leonards and Clifton S.
