Anthonys Nose (Victoria)

Anthonys Nose is a point, or escarpment located on the southern shore of Port Phillip Bay, between Dromana and McCrae, in Victoria, Australia.

At high tide a traveller by foot, horse, or wagon found it necessary to wade, ride or drive through the water in order to round the point, as the only road stuck to the coastline.

Georgiana McCrae gave an account in her journal of Meyrick, in 1845, solving the problem by sleeping next to his bullock wagon as he waited for the tide to go out.

Her diary also recorded various fishing expeditions at Anthony's Nose made by her husband, his employees, her sons, and the Boon wurrung Aboriginal locals who were the first custodians of that area.

He was intrigued with both these theories as Port Phillip Bay was at one time a vast plain cut by the Yarra River where it may have joined the ocean near the present day Rye.