Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary

Things to Do Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary incorporates a variety of marine habitats and is easily accessible from Melbourne making it the perfect place to explore Port Phillip Bay's marine environment. Education The accessible location of the Marine Sanctuary provides a large number of visitors with contact to a range of Port Phillip habitats. The area has been used extensively in the past for school education and provides potential to educate the range of visitors of the need to protect such areas. Ricketts Point also features in paintings by a number of Australia's famous early artists such as Tom Roberts and Fred McCubbin. Information on the paintings is available at sites adjacent to the sanctuary (the Tom Roberts painting The Sunny South was actually painted at Ricketts Point). Information about these paintings is located along the coast and around the Tea Rooms.