The Sorrento Hotel was built in Within a few years a swimming baths was built, walking tracks formed and Sorrento Park along Port Phillip Bay foreshore was laid out.
Regular bay steamer services brought vacationers and sightseers. A steam-tram service conveyed visitors from the pier to the back beach. Sorrento's township gained an Anglican church a mechanics' institute , several more hotels and an Athenaeum hall During Sorrento's population more than doubled to about people.
In Sorrento was described in the Australian handbook :. The Sorrento golf course was opened in and until bay steamers continued to bring visitors.
In the s there were seven guest houses and four large hotels. Motorised private transport did not significantly detract from Sorrento as a visitor destination until after World War II when neighbouring Portsea became a smarter place for holiday homes and vacationng. The Sorrento back beach's bays and coastal scenery were a tamer environment than the Portsea surf beach.
Nevertheless, Broadbent's guide to Mornington Peninsula observed that it was hard to determine where Sorrento ended and Portsea began, and the bay foreshore's stretch of seaside homes was often referred to as 'the millionaire's mile'. Back from the foreshore residents and tradespeople went about earning a living.
Menzies and me , a story of small-town Australia The crescent-shaped Sorrento Front Beach is flanked by an attractive foreshore area with lawns, shelters and English trees, plus a couple of small jetties. The sheltered waters make it ideal for swimming and other water activities. Climb the steps up the cliff face behind the Esplanade for spectacular views above Policemans Point where you catch watch the ferries come and go, and enjoy scenic views of Sorrento Front Beach.
There's also the restored railway platform which was used by the Sorrento Steam Tram between and to carry holidaymakers arriving by ferry from Melbourne to the ocean beach. Sorrento was the site of Victoria's first official European settlement which was established by Lieutenant-Colonel David Collins in A monument honouring this historic event has been erected at Eastern Sister which is located near the south-eastern end of Sorrento's bay coastline.
There is an elevated coastal walkway which leads to an information centre and several lookouts which provide scenic views across beach and bay. At the north-western end of Sorrento's bay coastline is Point King where Lieutenant Murray, on his exploration of Port Phillip in , raised the Union Jack and claimed the land for the British.
There is a monument to commemorate this event and a scenic coastal track from which splendid views along the coast in all directions can be enjoyed. By the s wealthy Melbournians were interested in the beauty and health-giving properties of the district. Sorrento Park was established using fast growing exotic trees supplied by Ferdinand von Mueller. It was the Hon. George Selth Coppin actor, entrepreneur, philanthropist and Member of Parliament, a man with enormous energy and teeming with ideas, who saw in Sorrento the potential for a resort for the general population.
His companies purchased much of what became the newly located centre of Sorrento and built the Continental Hotel , a guesthouse, houses and baths and introduced a seasonal ferry service from Melbourne. Download Sorrento Portsea Artists Trail. Download Sorrento Heritage Walks.
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