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courtesy John Amiet

Sandringham Foreshore Association Newsletter

Spring/Summer 2018

SANDRINGHAM FORESHORE ASSOCIATION (SFA)

Founded January 2007

ABN 42947116512

A CHARITABLE NOT FOR PROFIT VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION

SFA , PO Box 52 Sandringham 3191

Email: sandyforeshore@optusnet.com.au
Website: http://sandringhamforeshore.tumblr.com/
Patrons of SFA:
Professor Tim Flannery, former resident of Sandringham and Australian of the Year 2007

Professor John Long, Professor of Palaeontology with the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Flinders
University
"We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the waters and lands on which we live and work,
and pay our respects to the Elders, past and present”

From the president of SFA, Dr Vicki Karalis AM

Summer by the Sea walk and talk January 20th Sunday 10-12pm

The Bayside Environmental Friends Network (BEFN) and

Sandringham Foreshore Association present: Our Evolving
Coastline
I am honored once again to be leading a fascinating guided walk
and talk along the Sandringham coastline. Learn how beaches form
over millennia, the trends and impacts of sand movement, the
history of local rock geology, issues of coastal erosion, Bayside’s
living museums of local fossils and more.
Helen Gibson, a geologist, will talk about the significance of our
Bayside cliffs and local rocks and Trevor Turner of SFA will present
on what the Boon wurrung people would have seen in our area of the bay, compared to what
we see today.
Deepen your knowledge to help care for and protect our precious coastline, whilst absorbing
breathtaking views and a fresh sea breeze.
For more information and to book: http://summerbythesea.vic.gov.au/
https://www.facebook.com/summerbythesea/
Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron (BMYS) –EES update
It is with great pleasure to announce that the EES for the development of the Beaumaris
Motor Yacht Squadron marina has been ceased. I sincerely thank the new Commodore David
Bell for his leadership, as well as the Past Commodores, executives and members of the
BMYS for taking this direction. It was a decision not taken lightly by the Club and considered
with great caution. SFA have paid our respect and tribute to the Club knowing that they will
take great care to look after Beaumaris Bay for future generations to enjoy. We also believe
the club plays an important role for its members who have a passion and interest in fishing
and boating. For those interested see: https://www.bmys.com.au/
We have met with the Commodore David Bell and their committee members several times,
and we have been most impressed by their respect, care for the site, and willingness to work
with the community to learn more about the natural assets of Beaumaris Bay. Beaumaris Bay
is valued for its rich Paleontological, Geological, Indigenous, Artistic and Cultural significance.
Like our Aboriginal traditional custodians, we all enjoy and take pride in this beautiful land
and sea upon which we live and so acknowledge we have a responsibility to continue to take
good care of it with utmost respect and sensitivity. It is appropriate that the BMYS is hosting
a series of regular community educational events that allow the public to learn more about
the richness and beauty of Beaumaris Bay and many other areas of Bayside, and why we
need to preserve these areas for future generations to enjoy! We are proud to be supporting
the educational events series to be hosted by BMYS. On 21st February 2019 together with
Murray Orr, President of Bayside Earth Sciences Society (BESS) we will help launch the series
at its inaugural event for the BMYS members. We will speak on the values and significance of
Beaumaris Bay and why it deserves Heritage protection (outside the BMYS current site's
footprint).
Our heartfelt thanks go to the BMYS and we look forward to working with them more in the
near future.

Fossil emblem proposed for Victoria

Recently we wrote to the Premier, the Hon Daniel Andrews MP to take this unique opportunity
to nominate a fossil emblem for Victoria. The timing is now right, with the nomination currently
in place for the Beaumaris Bay fossil site to be considered for inclusion in the National Heritage
Listing (NHL). The nomination for NHL was prepared jointly by esteemed paleontological,
archaeological, geological and artistic experts, together with peak community bodies, as part of
the 'Beaumaris Bay Heritage Consortium' for its unique international fossil site, indigenous,
artistic and geological significance. One of a number of fossils that comes to our mind is the
Lovenia woodsii, commonly known as the 'Heart Urchin', found in abundance at the Beaumaris
Bay fossil site, the most significant urban fossil site in Australia. Professor John Long has been
involved in all three state fossil campaigns – Western Australia, New South Wales and South
Australia and he believes the model used by Western Australia was the best campaign as it had
the greatest effect on educating students in schools and the general public on the significance
of palaeontology.

Lovenia woodsii - 'Heart urchin'

A suitable fossil emblem for Victoria?

We look forward to your feedback and support for the Victorian Government to run
such a positive campaign and consider for the first time in history, a Victorian fossil emblem

Photo of Vicki Karalis pointing to fossils at Beaumaris Bay: many thanks to photographer Mr
Daffydd Owen for supplying beautiful photos of the fossils for the National Heritage
nomination.
On behalf of the SFA, we would like to thank Salva Crusca, SFA committee member who has
bravely taken on the task of looking after the SFA newsletters, and Helen Gibson and Cristian
Silver for editing the newsletter.

Enjoy your summer break!

With kindness, Vicki Karalis

Bayside beaches updates:
Black Rock seawall – proposal for a revetment wall update
SFA would like to thank Alison Horton, Vice President of SFA and local resident Hakan Dellal a marine
biologist, for all their efforts in communicating with the Department of Environment, Land, Water
Planning (DELWP) and the community – about the merits to avoid building a large revetment wall at
Black Rock and instead seeking gentler, more sensitive methods to help protect the wall from damage
caused by storms. For more information please visit Black Rock bluestone revetment wall Facebook Go
to https://www.facebook.com/ali.horton/62

Image taken of Black Rock seawall and beach threatened by the proposed wall. Summer 2017-2018

Black Rock beach warning

Marine Science expert Hakan Dellal, who is also involved with the Sandringham Foreshore Association
and the Marine Care Ricketts Point Inc, has expressed concern regarding a proposal by the Department
of Environment, Land, Water Planning (DELWP) to build a revetment structure to protect the seawall
and promenade at Black Rock’s Third Street beach. This structure, 440m long and 7m wide, will
effectively wipe out the beach while protecting a rock wall and a few million dollar properties from
occasional storms. Refer to article in Bayside Leader, Tuesday 11 September 2018.

Saving Black Rock Beach

Dr Vicki Karalis, President of the Sandringham Foreshore Association remained hopeful that the Black
Rock beach could be saved. She said ‘We welcome DELWP’s plan to protect the rock wall but their idea
is overkill as a large chunk of beach will be unnecessarily lost forever.’ Dr Karalis said an option to build
smaller revetments to protect the most vulnerable areas ‘needed to be explored.’ She said ‘This….would
be sensitive to the natural environment and a better outcome for the foreshore and the community.’

Refer to article in Bayside Leader, 16 October 2018.

Rare six-million-year-old whale fossil uncovered in Melbourne collection

A seemingly unremarkable fossil found on a Melbourne beach more than 60 years ago and kept in
storage turns out to be the oldest known evidence of the rare pygmy right whale. Read the full story

Shared from ABC app

Fossils on an Australian Beach Reveal a Shark-Eat-Shark World

The New York Times Aug. 9, 2018

Article by Nicholas St. Fleur, a science reporter with The New York Times who writes about archaeology,
paleontology, space and other topics.

In 2015 Philip Mullaly an amateur fossil hunter uncovered a tooth at a boulder on Beaumaris beach that
once belonged in the mouth of a 25-million-year-old giant shark that was twice the size of a great white.
He returned to the boulder a few weeks later and dug up several more three-inch teeth. Dr Erich
Fitzgerald, a paleontologist at the Museum Victoria in Melbourne identified the teeth as belonging to a
type of mega-toothed shark called the great jagged narrow toothed-shark, or Carcharocles angustidens,
more than 30 feet long.

An artist’s rendering of the giant shark, which was twice the size of a great white. Credit Peter Trusler.
This finding is significant because it was the first time a set of teeth belonging to the mega-toothed
shark had been discovered in Australia, and only the third time a set of teeth belonging to the same
individual Carcharocles angustidens had been found in the world.

With a team of paleontologists, Dr. Fitzgerald and Mr. Mullaly returned to the beach last year and
uncovered more than 40 shark teeth from the boulder and part of the giant shark’s vertebrae. The team
also found prehistoric teeth belonging to a sixgill shark, which is a bottom-feeding scavenger that swims
off the coasts of Australia today.
Dr. Erich Fitzgerald of the Museums Victoria in Melbourne, near where the C. angustidens fossils were
found. Credit Museum Victoria.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/science/sharks-fossils-australia.html

How sea levels reshaped Western Australia's coastline over 125,000 years

Archaeologists combine detailed scientific mapping with green screen technology usually found in big-
budget Hollywood films to recreate the history of Western Australia's shifting coastline going back
125,000 years.

Go to http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-07/wa-coastline-transformed-by-sea-levels-over-
thousands-of-years/10338500

Shared from the ABC app

MESAC vision for the future: Call to shore up ‘legacy’

Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary in Beaumaris was established in November 2002 by Parks Victoria in
order to protect the rich marine life based around the unique limestone reef system. Marine Education
Science and Community Centre Inc (MESAC) spokeswoman Virginia Mosk said Ricketts Point could be
the Great Barrier Reef of Victoria if the state government commits $15 – 20 million to extend the
sanctuary further out to sea and extend its north and south beach boundaries. MESAC would also like to
have the Beaumaris Yacht Club, the Beaumaris Life Saving Club and the Ricketts Point Teahouse
upgraded as all are within the sanctuary.

Refer to article in Bayside Leader, Tuesday November 20, 2018.

Department of Environment, Land, Water Planning (DELWP) updates

From the Marine and Coastal Act Project Team, DELWP:

Marine and Coastal Act 2018

We are pleased to advise that on 1 August 2018 the Marine and Coastal Act 2018 came into effect.

The new Act provides a more simple, integrated and coordinated approach to planning and managing
the marine and coastal environment by:

· enabling protection of the coastline and the ability to address the long-term challenges of climate
change, population growth and aging coastal structures

· ensuring that all partners work together to achieve the best outcomes for Victoria’s marine and
coastal environment

To view key elements of the new Act, please see the attached fact sheet. To view a full copy of the Act,
please go to www.legislation.vic.gov.au.

We also released Victoria’s Marine and Coastal Reforms Final Transition Plan, on 1 August. The plan has
been updated to reflect the new Act. It also includes recommendations made in the Victorian Auditor-
General’s Office report, Protecting Victoria’s Coastal Assets, released in March 2018. You can find a
copy of the plan at www.coastsandmarine.vic.gov.au.

We’d like to give a big ‘thank you’ to everyone who contributed to the shaping of the new legislation
and invite you to continue the reform journey with us. To be kept informed of future consultation
opportunities, please go to Engage Victoria and register your interest.

You can keep up to date by checking the DELWP website, contacting the DELWP customer service
centre on 136 186, or by sending any specific enquires to marine.coastalact@delwp.vic.gov.au.

Marine and Coastal Act Project Team| Land Management Policy

Energy, Environment & Climate Change | Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning
8 Nicholson Street, East Melbourne, Victoria 3002
E: Marine.CoastalAct@delwp.vic.gov.au
Environmental Volunteering

From the Environmental Volunteering Plan Team, Environment & Community Programs
DELWP:

We are pleased to announce that the Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change, Hon Lily
D’Ambrosio MP, has launched the Victorians Volunteering for Nature – Environmental Volunteering
Plan.

Victorians Volunteering for Nature – Environmental Volunteering Plan takes a fresh look to ensure we
can all volunteer for nature when, where and how it suits us. This Environmental Volunteering Plan will
expand and reinvigorate environmental volunteering for all Victorians to get involved.
We are setting a new direction based on sustaining, expanding, valuing and understanding volunteering
in Victoria. Each area has practical and contemporary ideas to support the environmental volunteering
sector, such as improving administration, training volunteers, increasing collaboration and using digital
communication tools to engage and share information.
We also want to celebrate the important environmental, social and economic contributions of our
environmental volunteers. It is essential that our volunteers feel valued and others see and value their
contribution.

We thank you very much for participating in this process through the online survey we conducted in
June. It gave us an opportunity to hear directly how we can better support the environmental
volunteering sector.

To download a copy of Victorians Volunteering for Nature - Environmental Volunteering Plan click here:
https://www.environment.vic.gov.au/home/victorians-volunteering-for-nature
For further information on environmental volunteering please email the Environmental Volunteering
team at environmental.volunteering@delwp.vic.gov.au.

Environmental Volunteering Plan Team

Environment & Community Programs| Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning
Level 2 / 8 Nicholson Street, East Melbourne, Victoria 3002
E: environmental.volunteering@delwp.vic.gov.au

To find out more about Protecting Victoria’s Environment – Biodiversity 2037 visit
environment.vic.gov.au/biodiversityplan

Free training for Coastal Volunteers

Proudly presented by Phillip Wierzbowski, Coastcare Victoria Facilitator - Port Phillip and
Western Port:
Earlier this year Coastcare offered training opportunities for volunteers to increase their capacity to
manage public areas. The training was a great success with around 60 volunteers taking up the
opportunity to be trained in OH&S, First Aid or Safe Chemical Use.
Coastcare are now pleased to offer two more training opportunities in Melbourne, at Arthur Rylah
Institute for Environmental Research, 123 Brown Street, Heidelberg

OPTION 1 : Successful Grant Writing - Heidelberg, Monday 3rd December 2018

Description : one day course for participants to get a hold on the grant writing process and how to
write successful grant applications.

OPTION 2 : Strategic Planning for Volunteer Groups - Heidelberg, Tuesday 4th December 2018

Description : a one day course in strategic planning for volunteer groups. Assists groups in
improving strategic focus, resource management and long-term planning.
Participants will leave the course with practical tools to take back and use within their own
volunteer groups

The training will also be held at various locations across the state including Warrnambool, Geelong,
Melbourne and Gippsland and in two blocks, November/December 2018 and March/April 2019.

All the training is funded by Coastcare and there is funding available to assist you with travel and
accommodation if required.

To find a course that suits you and to book go to the Coastcare website at the following address or
please do not hesitate to contact me.

NB: Booking are essential via links above and 'Eventbrite'

Phillip Wierzbowski
Coastcare Victoria Facilitator - Port Phillip and Western Port
Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning
Telephone : (03) 9450 – 8793
Mobile: (0411) 409 – 815
Email : phillip.wierzbowski@delwp.vic.gov.au
website : www.delwp.vic.gov.au
Community announcements

All about Jellyfish: identification, sightings and first aid treatment

Knowing when and where jellyfish are likely to occur can be challenging even for the experts. The
Jellyfish App is designed to help you quickly assess what species are likely to be around, what to do to
keep from being stung, what to do in the event of a sting, and how to report alerts so that others will be
safe too.
Over 280 of the world’s most visible species as well as the less visible, more dangerous ones can be
found on this free app. This is suitable for use by divers, fishers, tourism operators, beach combers,
naturalists and others interested in squishy beasts.

The app may also be of use to people working in the marine environment.

https://thejellyfishapp.com/
Do you want a small volunteer scientific job this summer to help out the EPADo you want a PA?

Drain Detectives: Using citizen scientists and sensors to protect Bay beaches

Do you want a small volunteer scientific job this summer to help out the EPA?

What is “Drain Detectives”?

Stormwater drains entering Port Phillip Bay can bring pollution which can impact water quality at
our beautiful beaches in certain areas. Drain Detectives is an innovative project using information
from community and simple sensors, to better understand and manage drain outfall which causes
this pollution. Beaches being targeted in 2018-19 are: Sandringham, Mentone, Mordialloc,
Dromana and Rye.

We need you to become involved!

We will be working with the community to collect scientific information on stormwater drains
near beaches. There will be opportunities to become a trained volunteer citizen-scientist,
collecting and getting on-the-spot water quality results at drains; or getting involved as a casual
reporter of drain flows at sign posted drains. In the coming weeks, EPA Victoria will be recruiting
community members to monitor drains over spring and summer.

Why we need your input through a quick Survey?

It’s important that the information collected by citizen-scientists is valuable and useful to the
community. In setting up this important work, the community will also be asked to contribute
ideas about the types of information which will be reported on the EPA website from the Drain
Detectives project. Therefore your help with the survey below will be appreciated!

This project is funded by the Victorian Government Port Phillip Bay Fund, and is in partnership
with Beach Patrol – Sandringham, Dromana and Rye; Hampton Sailing Club and Rye Yacht Club.

Here is a link to the Victorian government’s EPA Survey site here. Or view and complete it directly
in your Brower: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9ZCPP66

Sandringham Beach Patrol Group

Marine Mammal Foundation

The Marine Mammal Foundation aims to educate and raise awareness of marine environment issues. Dr
Kate Charlton-Robb, the Foundation spokesperson, made world headlines when in 2011 she discovered
the Burrunan dolphin, a previously endangered species which lives in Port Phillip Bay. The Foundation
has launched a program for young people who care about the environment and helping to save the
Burrunan dolphin population. The Foundation is based in Hampton East and is a not-for-profit
organisation.
If you would like to become involved visit:
https://marinemammal.org.au/

Coastcare Victoria : Community Grants Program - are now OPEN and will close 20 February
2019
What is the Coastcare Victoria Community Grants Program?

The Coastcare Victoria Community Grants Program supports community organisations to protect and
enhance the coastal and near-shore marine environment. It has two key focus areas:

· Conservation, rehabilitation, restoration and preventative actions for Victoria’s coastal and marine
ecosystems.

· Support community participation and engagement to enhance community knowledge and

understanding of coastal and marine management.

Application dates

· Opening date: 22 October 2018

· Closing date: 20 February 2019 - midnight

Available funding - Funding is available for:

· One-year projects - Up to $10,000; Projects to be completed by 30 June 2020.

· Two-year projects - Up to $15,000. Projects to be completed by 30 June 2021.

· A total of up to $270,000 is available for recipients of the 2018-2019 Coastcare Victoria Community
Grants Program.

What funding is available?

· Applications have opened for the 2019 Coastcare Victoria Community Grants Program, which
supports community efforts to protect Victoria’s 1,780 kilometres of coastline.

· Up to $270,000 will be available to community groups for projects that improve the coastal
environment either through on-ground work, or community engagement and education.

· One-year projects of up to $10,000 and two-year projects of up to $15,000 will be funded.

· Community groups are encouraged to submit projects that will assist in the restoration,
rehabilitation and conservation of coastal and marine environments across the state.
· For more information on the 2019 Coastcare Victoria Community Grants Program, including
funding guidelines, visit :-https://www.coastsandmarine.vic.gov.au/coastal-
programs/coastcare/coastcare-victoria-community-grants-2019 or contact your Regional Coastcare
Facilitator.

Phillip Wierzbowski
Coastcare Victoria Facilitator - Port Phillip and Western Port
Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning
123 Brown Street or PO Box 137, Heidelberg 3084
DX: 211902

Telephone : (03) 9450 – 8793

Mobile: (0411) 409 – 815
Email : phillip.wierzbowski@delwp.vic.gov.au
website : www.delwp.vic.gov.au

$20m funding available for grants for Australian Volunteers

Link https://www.communitygrants.gov.au/grants/volunteer-grants-2018%20

Reducing Plastic Pollution Consultation Enquiry

Please visit
https://engage.vic.gov.au/waste/plastic-pollution to read the consultation report, which highlights the
results of the consultation and outlines the government's next steps on these issues.

(Note that this website may have closed due to government being in caretaker mode during the election
– but is expected to shortly re-open.)

Coastal Risk Australia

Predicted coastal flooding resulting from climate change:
the data in this tool has been developed to help communicate the risks of sea level rise and storm surge.

The website does not include the dynamic response of unconsolidated shorelines (such as sand, mud
and shell) or the increase in tidal flows in coastal waterways. The model does not take into account the
effects of catchment flooding from extreme rainfall events.

Please Visit: http://coastalrisk.com.au/

To go to Coastal Risk Australia, Viewer.
Profile of a Bayside resident: Graeme Disney OAM, former Mayor Bayside City Council

Left: Photo of Lorraine Huddle,

President of the Sandringham and
District Historical Society together
with Graeme Disney OAM, at the
recent AGM.
Below: Is a copy of the speech given
by Graeme at this year’s AGM.

Note the new display cabinet in the

background with fossils found at
Beaumaris Bay donated to the
Society.

Bayside is blessed with 17.5 kms of unique foreshore. It varies over this length, from more ordered and
formal at the Brighton end, through a mixture of useage until at the Beaumaris end, it is more natural,
having been carefully preserved.

Dorothy and I have lived in Hampton all our lives (In my case nearly 80 years) and our two childhood
and three marital homes have all been fairly close to the Beach, especially our current home, where we
have lived on Beach Road, overlooking Fisherman's Bend - the coast between Green Point and Picnic
Point - for nearly 40 years.

Going to the beach was a special and frequent part of our childhood. In my case, during and after World
War II, it meant a major excursion with my mother and one or two of her friends with their children, or
with uncles and aunts and numerous cousins. We would go to the widest part of Hampton Beach,
opposite Linacre Road, where there was a kiosk and two rows of bathing boxes. We carried a heavy
load. My mother insisted on two rugs, a canvas wind screen with a wooden frame, a sun umbrella and
lunch items - sandwiches, a thermos of hot tea, cool drinks and fruit. After lunch we were made to wait
one hour. This was a mandatory requirement as it was a popular belief that to swim within an hour after
a meal was to seriously court death by drowning. Children in the car today monotonously repeat 'Are
we there yet?' but our demand after about 30 minutes and every five minutes thereafter was 'Is an hour
up yet?' I remember these as the longest hours of my young life.

The kiosk was a popular destination, as they sold an excellent ice cream known as a 'wafer'. These were
made by Swallow and Ariel and were a paper-wrapped block of ice cream between two wafers. Yum!
The kiosk had change rooms, where for a penny you could change your clothes and even have a cold
shower. We preferred saving the penny by doing a wiggle under a large beach towel on the beach. We
became expert at dropping the wet 'togs', drying the fundamentals, and sliding up the shorts. The only
item missing, by today's standards, was sunscreen. A suntan was considered healthy and any sunburn
was treated later with the 'cream off the top of the milk'.

When I was old enough to avoid adult supervision, I was allowed to go to the beach with one or two
friends of the same age. We wore our bathers under our shorts, a tee shirt, leather sandals, and carried
a beach towel. We swam near the Hampton Life Saving Club and were expected to 'keep an eye' on our
clothes that remained on the sand all day. As we became more adventurous and swam around to the
pier, the inevitable result was that our gear was all stolen (couldn't have been Hampton people...). This
resulted in a new dress code. No shorts, an old shirt and a threadbare towel that nobody would ever
steal. No sandals, as these were only available in leather - no thongs in those days - and that meant bare
feet. Going to the beach became a new experience. We left the shop by the back gate that opened onto
the lane, with its bluestone pitchers really hot on a summer's day. We ran to the lamp post and put our
sizzling feet on the grass and weeds at its base (with luck it might have been moistened by a passing
dog). After a pause a quick sprint down Small Street, from post to post, until we reached the horse
trough outside Hampton Hotel. The big trough had a small trough at one end for dogs to drink and
soaking our blistering feet in. This was absolute bliss. The final dash was across Beach Road and we
knew if the temperature was around 100 degrees (F) that the tar would be melted and would stick on
the soles of our feet. Grateful for the cooling grass of the beach gardens we would climb the steps of
the stone drinking fountain and splash cool water on our burning feet. Once down the ramp, across the
sand and into the water all the torture would be quickly forgotten.

We would swim out to some wooden piles in front of the Lifesaving club and join the crowd of kids
climbing these to dive from them. The Hampton Pier however, drew us like a magnet (NO SWIMMING)
and we loved to jump from there and swim amongst the boats. As we became older (but not wiser) we
swam further out to the wooden-piled breakwaters and the submarine. The older children (big kids)
waxed lyrical about the dreadful dangers, and these enlarged with each telling. There were sharks under
the pier, the submarine was home to a giant octopus that 'sucked people in' and a huge stingray hung
around the wooden breakwaters. I later graduated to snorkelling and spearfishing, and while I did not
encounter the sharks (they were there, but harmless 'gummies) or the giant octopus, I did encounter
the huge resident stingray, and it was rather chilling to see that it was much bigger than I was, but it was
never aggressive.

The pier was always very busy and was used by both professional and amateur fishermen at that time.
The rails were strung with drying nets - often being repaired - and the pier was covered in fish boxes,
some empty and some full of fresh fish. There was a large boat hire shed, and while some boats were in
the water and tied to the pier, extras were brought out from the shed by 'flying fox' on a cable that
stretched from the shed to a pole on the pier. Fishing was raw and basic in those days - no rods or reels,
clear nylon or other flash gear. Fishing lines were green cotton which was wound around a cork block.
Hooks were basic but were kept sharp with a small sharpening stone. Bait, in the form of mussels and
kungi-voi, was collected from piles on the breakwater and a drift across the sandbars soon produced
some flathead. These were cut small and fitted to tiny hooks to catch garfish, and these in turn were
mounted on 'ganged' larger hooks to catch the elusive snapper. No licences in those days, so it was all
free!

Living by the sea is wonderful, with the everchanging sight of the sea by day and the sound and smell of
the sea by night. We can watch passing ships of all types, yachts and fishing boats and the hopeful
fishermen on the rock groynes. We enjoy the seabirds - silver gulls, terns, cormorants, black swans,
gannets and shearwaters (muttonbirds). While the westerly winds are welcome when they bring a cool
change, they can be very wild and cover the house and windows with salt spray. All garden plants need
to be salt tolerant and we are very fortunate to be able to obtain these from the Bayside Community
Plant Nursery, where seedlings and plants are grown from seed collected from the foreshore by
volunteers.

The original inhabitants of the coast in this place were the Gnaruk Willem or 'People of the stones or
rocks’, an extended family sub group of the Boon Wurrung ,who were part of the Kulin Nation .
We have named our house' WARREEN', which in their language means 'beside or near the water or sea'
or in our case 'beside the bay' or 'Bayside'.
Historical Bayside photos supplied by Graeme Disney OAM:
The pier (or jetty) as we knew it. The lower sections were removed later during repairs. The Hire Boat
shed is the large building on the left. Sandy Yacht Club that was burned down by a burglar, is on the
right.

Hampton beach with the original Hampton Lifesaving Club (now demolished).
Hampton beach with the kiosk, looking north.

Hampton beach in the kiosk area.

"The Sandringham Historical Series No. 1 The First People of Black Rock"
Edited by Graeme O'Toole (1982). Extract Sandringham Council Bunwurrong book
Historical Bayside photos supplied by Shirley Joy:
Half Moon Bay, Black Rock, Victoria, photograph 1907
Beaumaris Bay, near Cheltenham

Beaumaris Bay, 1907

Black Rock Half Moon Bay, 1907

Beaumaris, date unknown

Beaumaris beach scene 1908

Black Rock 1904

Black Rock bathing boxes

Black Rock beach

The natural wonders of Bayside

SFA welcomes you to submit your photos or stories and tell us what inspires you about them!

Drone (DJI Mavic Air) photos of Sandringham beach taken by Jeff Bee, 22 August 2018 at 3.30pm

Half Moon Bay

Southey Street groyne, Sandringham beach with surrounding reef system

Sandringham beach to the north

Sandringham beach to the south

Brighton Beach
Aerial view of the Cerberus wreck at Half Moon Bay

Sandringham Yacht Club

Edward Street beach erosion over winter 2018

The wave action from storms tore down the fencing and caused cliff erosion. This is why Edward street
beach needs a top up of sand, which is what SFA have been requesting from DELWP for a number of
years.

Photos taken by Trevor Turner, 26 August 2018.

We hope you have enjoyed reading the spring/summer 2018-2019 edition of the SFA
Newsletter!

Yours with kindness,

Dr Vicki Karalis AM,

SFA President

SFA committee members:

Alison Horton, Vice-President & Public Officer; Perfusionist

Salva Crusca, Secretary, Mental health worker. Assistance with SFA Newsletter
Craig Francis, Treasurer, IT expert
Ike Solomon, Engineer
Helen Gibson, Geologist & Editorial assistant
Paul Hede, Architect
Adrienne Smith, Secretarial Assistant, IT consultant
Trevor Turner, IT consultant
Tony McKenna, former Marine Operations Manager for the Australian Institute of
Marine (holding this position for 20 years)
Cristian Silver, Editorial Assistant, Copy Editor.

Free SFA Membership

The Sandringham Foreshore Association is a charitable not-for-profit association. Membership is free.
Our self-acclaimed role is to foster and promote good natural conservation principles to Bayside
foreshore management. Our current focus is to assist public education by aligning ourselves with
scientific experts in fields of conservation and natural environment, and to facilitate effective
communication between community – council and state governments – and established environmental
science publications and position statements.

The role of SFA is to care for and help protect our local beaches and cliffs, but also to educate, raise
awareness and preserve our local archaeological, geological, cultural, indigenous and heritage sites such
as the Beaumaris Bay fossil site.

If you are interested in joining our free membership, to receive notices and our Quarterly Newsletters –
Please respond via our website

http://sandringhamforeshore.tumblr.com/MembershipForm