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We cruise west past Collins Settlement where Lieutenant Collins landed with Victoria's first settlers - the property includes ‘The Sisters’ which was recently purchased by a well-known Melbourne family for $18.4 million, the newly rebuilt Sorrento Sailing Club, headquarters of Victoria’s famous Couta Boat fleet, the Baths Restaurant where the seaplane brings luncheon guests from Williamstown, the township of Sorrento and the Sorrento pier and ferry terminal, the old aquarium now a private home, Point King where we often see dolphins, then the Portsea cliff-top mansions including that of a well-known trucking magnate and sometimes his helicopter, the magnificent $20 million house that once belonged to Lex Davison the grand prix driver, the Portsea Camp, the Portsea Hotel, the new 12-acre Mornington Peninsula Shire Park at Police Point, the Quarantine Station at Point Nepean where immigrants from ships with sickness on board were disembarked and hospitalised until they recovered and went on to Melbourne. It later housed the Army and then the Kosovo refugees and will soon to be a conference centre and university campus, down the South Channel where we often have a close encounter with one of the large ships on her way to Melbourne, the seal colony on an old channel marker with gannets nesting on the top deck, the South Channel Fort, man-made in the 1880's to defend us from a Russian invasion, the Bay Lighthouse which cost Parks Victoria $1.2 million to relocate and refurbish manned and lived in until the sixties by a family with four children, round Sorrento channel mark number 10 and back to the Marina