Why is this a special place?

Point Ritchie has been attracting people for a long time.

Scientific research over the past three decades has suggested people may have been visiting the area for perhaps 80,000 years.

The resource-rich area helped sustain indigenous Australians with its abundance of marine life and plant and animal food among the dunes and coastal bush.

Point Ritchie, says Aboriginal elder Robert Lowe Sen. is a place that has “heart and soul”.

Indigenous Australians from this region recount stories of their ancestors having owned and occupied this part of Victoria