Point Lonsdale

It started as he's got Buckley's chance.

In other words, the bloke they discovered had actually survived and lived with the Indigenous down in Point Lonsdale or some place like that.

Correct.

But then because there was a department store called Buckley and Nunn, it morphed into what chance did he have? He had Buckley and Nunn.

Then it

really got cooking with gas in about 2002 when the outbreak at Point Lonsdale got going.

And within a few years, that became the biggest outbreak by far at the time recorded, much bigger than the Phillip Island outbreak.

occurring in a very intense and very small area and actually geographically very similar to silver leaves in East Cowes, very low-lying, same sort of houses amongst Tea Tree and some banksies, another lovely place to go for a holiday.

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So Paul was seeing some of the people who'd get Borrelia ulcer in Point Lonsdale.

They'd come into hospital in Melbourne.

What have you been doing? Have you been doing? So, this is...

point lonsdale back beach so which is literally like if you look up the beach there you'll see ocean grow just in the distance on where the beach turns to the left that's where i'm right

yes yes

and would you believe i've lived here for 20 years and i've never photographed this beach well this this particular

The amazing thing was we started this, we started at four o'clock at my shop and we do an hour of theory for want of a better term.

We just go over a few things with the camera and make sure that the customer knows where the ISO is and whatever, how to change apertures and shutter speeds and that sort of stuff.

And then we got over to Point Lonsdale at five o'clock and it felt like three seconds and the sun was setting and the sun set at 745.

Yeah, they go quick, don't they?

The Mayor, Councillor Dennis Heslin, said the council will keep advocating for more state government support and the next review is due in December of 2027.

Greater Geelong Council has asked the Victorian Government to rezone a Point Lonsdale site owned by Coles so it can only be used for tourism.

The Geelong Advertiser reported the move follows community protests against a proposed supermarket on the Bellarine Highway site and a petition with more than 4,700 signatures.

The Mayor, Councillor Stretch Contell, said the amendment delivers on the Point Lonsdale structure plan.

If Planning Minister Sonia Kilkenny authorises it, public exhibition would follow.

Australia's first Vietnamese museum has opened in Sunshine in Melbourne's west.

some of the, um, seaside areas which are getting that great, you know, afternoon breeze coming through.

You know, it's, it's 40 degrees in Melbourne and it's, you're down in Point Lonsdale or somewhere and, and the sea breeze is rolling on through and it's 26.

Mm.

You know, and it's, and it's magnificent.

But because she wasn't able to get what she wanted with that other builder, she then came back to us and that's when we were able to work together and design and build her first house.

And her first house was a double storey home, um, built in Point Lonsdale on the golf course that was largely based off one of our pre-designed homes.

And she made some, made some changes to it, which is what she was after, but it also offered a lot in the original design, which helped make it a bit more economical rather than doing a full custom build.

Yep.

Um, and she loved that home.

Um, but they actually redesigned, redeveloped the golf course out of Point Lonsdale and they changed, um, some of the holes around and the layout and all that kind of stuff.

So a house that had backed onto the golf course now no longer did because of the development.

But then she purchased another block, um, just down the road, not too far.