[3] Cape Bridgewater is home to a colony of up to 650 fur seals and has the highest coastal cliff in Victoria.

The cape itself also boasts a large blowhole and karst solution pipes, colloquially known as the petrified forest,[9] but now known to be hollow tubes of limestone, eroded as a result of millions of years of rainfall.

Bridgewater Bay and the adjacent Cape form a partially submerged volcanic caldera.

For these reasons the Cape and the nearby coastal area is classed by the government as the second most important coastline in Victoria, after the 'Twelve Apostles', along the Great Ocean Road Construction of wind turbines by the company Pacific Hydro were constructed on the cape after some controversy.

This is part of the Portland Wind Project Media related to Cape Bridgewater at Wikimedia Commons