[1] Rye's beach, on the eastern side of Port Phillip, is popular with swimmers, fishermen, yachtsmen, and kitesurfers.

Suburban lots of 21 to 98 acres extended west to French St and south to a point just past the Golf Pde corner.

Many who had been engaged in the production of lime, such as Nathan Page, Tom Bennett, Edward Russell, Harold Bainbridge and Spunner, were dispossessed of their kilns by Blair in about 1867.

Many golf courses and the Peninsula Hot Springs are on the sites of Limeburners' properties between Browns and Limestone Roads.

Ti tree had spread inland from the foreshore as the she-oaks had almost completely disappeared, having fired the kilns for decades.

Cut into 2 foot 6 inch sections, the ti tree was shipped in former limecraft to heat bakers' ovens in Melbourne.

Brown set about dealing with rampant ti tree and rabbits, while the Jennings family moved into dairy farming.

The pier can house seahorses, stingrays, spider crabs, squid, scallops and octopuses and Australian fur seals.

The wreck of the wooden sailing ketch Eivion lies 115 metres to the east of Rye Pier.