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Kirk Point

Kirk Point is a low, windswept headland on Corio Bay's northern shoreline at Point Wilson, about 60 km from Melbourne and 25 km from Geelong. Mapped as a historic and protected site, it is best known not for buildings but for a quiet stretch of coast: a small cove of calm, clear water, shell-strewn beaches, and wide mud-and-sand flats that glow at sunset. It is an unhurried, somewhat remote spot that rewards a visit at dusk or for a cast of a line. What makes it appealing is the sense of isolation. Part of the Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar wetland, the coast here stays low and natural, ringed by salt marsh, basalt outcrops and shelly ridges, with little of the bustle of a developed seaside town. Visitors come to beachcomb, watch the water birds, fish off the rocks, and stay for the sunset over the land and the moonrise out over the bay.