[1] Safety Beach occupies slightly less than half the area of land between the foothills of Mount Martha and Arthurs Seat and borders Port Philip Bay to its west.

Safety Beach gets its name from a journal entry of a trading vessel that run aground in storm and they were able to off load the livestock safely.

Henry Dunn had leased the Survey from 1846 until 1851 and was succeeded by tenants such as the Griffith, Eaton, Peatey, McLear, Clydesdale, Wilson, Cottier and Gibson families, which were involved with the History of Dromana.

Big Clarke later owned the survey, and sold the northern 1000 or so acres to John Vans Agnew Bruce.

Maria Stenniken, who married Godfrey Burdett Wilson, used to work at Bruce's house as a servant during the summer.

(Sources: A Dreamtime of Dromana, Lime Land Leisure, Rate records, 1888 Post office directory.)