Coastal guide to nature and history: Port Phillip Bay
CONTENTS (Click links below to see sample pages)
Introduction
- Purpose and coverage of the book
- Rewards in store for the coastal explorer
Walking the coastline
- Advice on walking the coast
- Safety and the tides
Early history - Aboriginal life and European discovery and settlement
A journey around the bay
- Point Lonsdale to Geelong (sample pages - St Leonards - Indented Head)
- Avalon to Williamstown
- Port Melbourne to Frankston (sample pages - Half Moon Bay)
- Mount Eliza to Point Nepean
Coastal animals and plants (sample pages - Intertidal animals, seaweeds)
- Common animals of the coast, including invertebrates that live between the tides
- Vegetation communities, including saltmarsh, dune plants and seaweeds
Coastal landforms - Geology of the region and how it determines landforms
Coastal management
Acknowledgements and extended image credits
Author
References and further reading
Index