Mornington Peninsula: Self-Guided Bike Tour w E-Bike Option

Enjoy an adventure with family or friends while cycling along the stunning coastline of the most southern point of the Mornington Peninsula. Point Nepean is one of Victoria's most dramatic stretches of coastline. Bayplay is the only operator that lets you explore it by bike, at your own pace.

Follow the signs to the Quarantine Station carpark, head towards the water and we are located on the right next to the Parks Victoria Information Centre. We have bikes available for 7+ yrs and bike carriers for kids 6 and under, please call ahead if you would like to book either of these.

Quarantine Station was used during the Gold Rush to slow and restrict sick visitors from getting to Melbourne. Visit the old hospitals they were required to quarantine in after a long ocean journey travelling to Victoria. The surrounding buildings had many purposes during and after this time, definitely worth visiting.

Gunner's Cottage was the original home built for the fort's Master Gunner. It's also the starting point for a short walking detour to the Point Nepean Cemetery, where shipwreck victims are buried. Toilets and limited facilities are available before you head out.

Take in the vistas over Port Phillip Bay.

Laid out in the 1940s for wartime telegraph services, the track still carries remnant poles from the line that once connected Melbourne to Fort Nepean during the Second World War.

Pull over along Defence Road near Cheviot Hill for the short walk to the Harold Holt Memorial, a granite marker at the spot where Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach in December 1967. A viewing platform overlooks the beach, though swimming and beach access here are prohibited.

From here you'll look out over Cheviot Beach, site of both the 1887 wreck of the SS Cheviot and Harold Holt's disappearance eighty years later.

Continue cycling to Fort Pearce, built in 1911 to house 6-inch Mark VII guns with a firing range of over 12 kilometres. Dummy guns were installed here in 1942 when the coast was considered vulnerable to air attack, and the nearby Pearce Barracks once housed the soldiers stationed at Point Nepean.

Finish your ride at Fort Nepean, on the very tip of the Mornington Peninsula and one of Australia's best-preserved fort complexes. Park your bike and wander through tunnels and gun emplacements dating from the 1880s to the 1940s, standing where the first Allied shot of the First World War was fired on 5 August 1914.

Point Nepean National Park sits on the traditional Country of the Bunurong People, at the tip of the Mornington Peninsula. Across its 560 hectares of cycling trails and coastal roads, discover military forts and tunnels and a historic quarantine station, all set against panoramic views of Bass Strait, The Rip and Port Phillip.