Survey Point | Cape Nelson NP Vic |
Latitude | -38.4280600 (38° 25′ 41″ S) |
Longitude | 141.5436100 (141° 32′ 37″ E) |
To the SW of Portland access is along Cape Nelson Rd. The area surrounding the lighthouse is good heathland. This site is a good spot for watching seabirds off the coast.
No camping advised here.
Surveys done 3
Blogs, see main page archives:
Victoria’s SW coast and Princess Hwy 2016
Victoria, The Coorong, Flinders Ranges, Oodnadatta Track, Newhaven, Mt Augustus, Kennedy Range NP 2024
- Brush Bronzewing Phaps elegans 1 (33.33%)
- Pacific Gull Larus pacificus 1 (33.33%)
- Greater Crested Tern Thalasseus bergii 1 (33.33%)
- Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris 1 (33.33%)
- Shy Albatross Thalassarche cauta 1 (33.33%)
- Short-tailed Shearwater Ardenna tenuirostris 1 (33.33%)
- Australasian Gannet Morus serrator 3 (100.00%)
- Black-faced Cormorant Phalacrocorax fuscescens 1 (33.33%)
- Nankeen Kestrel Falco cenchroides 1 (33.33%)
- Rufous Bristlebird Dasyornis broadbenti 1 (33.33%)
- New Holland Honeyeater Phylidonyris novaehollandiae 1 (33.33%)
- Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata 3 (100.00%)
- Singing Honeyeater Gavicalis virescens 3 (100.00%)
- White-browed Scrubwren Sericornis frontalis 1 (33.33%)
- Brown Thornbill Acanthiza pusilla 2 (66.67%)
- Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen 1 (33.33%)
- Willie Wagtail Rhipidura leucophrys 1 (33.33%)
- Little Raven Corvus mellori 1 (33.33%)
- Forest Raven Corvus tasmanicus 1 (33.33%)
- Eastern Yellow Robin Eopsaltria australis 1 (33.33%)
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus 2 (66.67%)
- Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena 2 (66.67%)
- Silvereye Zosterops lateralis 2 (66.67%)
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris 1 (33.33%)