Program Date Location Tides Time Activity Key O/Night Notes

Day Participants Berth

Saturday Docklands 5pm – 7pm Community Event - Come Parks Victoria Docklands Open to
9th Jan aboard the Pelican1 and Coastcare Victoria public
explore our bays. Learn
about the Pelican’s research
1 and educational projects
before it sails around Phillip
and Western Port’s Marine
National Parks and
Sanctuaries.
Sunday Ricketts Point 10:24am 0.90 9am-3pm Community Event - Join Marine Care Docklands Pick up and
10th Jan Marine H Marine Care aboard the Ricketts Point; drop off from
Sanctuary 5:30pm 0.18 L Pelican1 and discover Coastcare Victoria; Black Rock
Rickets Point Marine Parks Victoria; ABM Jetty, Half
Sanctuary. Learn about the Moon Bay
2 Sanctuary’s habitats and Melways 85
marine life. Includes H2. BYO
snorkelling activity. snorkel, mask
and wetsuit.
Max 20
participants
Marine pest surveys UniMelb
Seabird surveys Bird Australia
volunters
Monday Travel day 8:18am 1.36 H 9am-3pm Seabird surveys Birds Australia
3 11th Jan 2:34pm 0.26 L volunteers
Rye Pier 5pm – 7pm Community Event - Come Coastcare Rye Pier Photography
aboard the Pelican1 and display images
learn about Rye's marine from
secrets. Have you seen the Octopuses
octopuses’ garden? Garden Open
to public

Tuesday Bass Strait 9:11am 1.28H All day Water Quality / Bay Monash and Flinders Pier
4 12th Jan Exchange Melbourne Unis

3:30pm 0.30 L All day Sea Country Boonwurrung

All day Bird monitoring Arthur Rylah and
Birds Australia
 Wed. Western Port 10:51am 2.33 9am-4pm Port Phillip and Western Port Port Phillip and Hastings
13th Jan H Catchment Management Western Port
5 Authority Stakeholders Tour Catchment
W/Port Management
Authority; partners
5:08pm 0.56 L
Thursday Western Port 11:57am 2.26 9am-4pm W/Port Seagrass Parks Victoria; Hastings
14th Jan H /6:11pm Partnership trip. Museum Victoria;
6 0.62 L W/Port Seagrass
Partnership
Map bathymetry of channels Australian Marine
in Yaringa Ecology
Marine pest surveys UniMelb
Segrass workshop WP Seagrass
Partnership Melb
Water DSE DPI
Seabird surveys Birds Australia
volunteers
Friday Northern 7:12am 1.28 L 9am-3pm Sea Country W/Port Monash and Hastings Circuit over the
7 15th Jan W/Port 1:05am 2.24 H Boonwurrung Melbourne Unis top of French
Is.
7:14pm 0.63 L
Hastings Jetty 5pm – 7pm Community Event - Come Coastcare; Parks Open to
aboard the Pelican1 and Victoria; ABM public
learn about Western Port's
Marine National Parks and
the unique habitats they
protect.
Seabird surveys Birds Australia
volunteers
Saturday Tooradin 8:15am 1.20 L 9am-4pm Sea Search - Mangrove People and Parks Hastings
8 16th Jan Monitoring Training Foundation
2:08pm 2.28 H Parks Victoria
Seabird surveys Birds Australia
volunteers
Sunday Rhyll Jetty 9:08am 1.09 L 9am-4pm Community Event - Come Coastcare Rhyll Open to
17th Jan aboard the Pelican1 and public
learn about Western Port's
9 Marine National Parks and
the unique habitats they
protect.
3:03pm 2.35 H Parks Victoria
 Monday Bass Strait 8:58am 0.58 L All day REST IP Queenscliff
10 18th Jan
2:51pm 1.26 H
Tuesday Port Philip 9:35am 0.51 L 9am-4pm Reef Life Survey Parks Victoria Queenscliff
11 19th Jan Heads
3:33pm 1.30 H Port Phillip Heads Marine People and Parks
National Park Foundation
Diver Operated Video Matt Edmunds
Surveys (demo) (AME), Euan Harvey
(UWA), Jim Seager,
Reef Watch
Seabird surveys Birds Australia
volunteers
Wed. Port Philip 10:10am 0.44 Natural history / Under the Parks Victoria ; Queenscliff
12 20th Jan Heads L Lens Museum Victoria

4:13pm 1.33 H Port Phillip Heads Marine

National Park
Thursday Port Philip 10:42am 0.39 9am-3pm Mud Islands - Indigenous PV, partners Queenscliff
13 21st Jan Heads L survey.
4:51pm 1.35H Marine pest surveys UniMelb
Seabird and shorebird Birds Australia
surveys volunteers
Queenscliff 5pm – 7pm Community Event - Come CACC, PV, BoQ, Queenscliff Open to
Harbour aboard the Pelican1 and Community Groups public
learn about the marine life of
the Port Phillip Heads
Marine National Park and
discover what’s below the
Bluff?
Friday Bellarine 11:14am 0.34 9am-3pm Sea Country (Wathaurong) Bird Australia and Alexander
22nd Jan Peninsula L Water quality monitoring. volunteers Thomson
14 Birds Australia Bird Jetty
monitoring Geelong
5:30pm 1.36H Shorebird and seabird
monitoring
Alexander 5pm – 7pm Community Event - Come CACC, PV, CoGG, J. Ludbrook
Thompson aboard the Pelican1 and Community Groups (CACC)
Jetty Eastern learn about the marine
Beach wonders of Port Phillip Bay.
Open to public
 Corio Bay 5-7pm Tender recovery of ARC Melb Uni
Snapper study mooring

Saturday Western 8:38am 0.87 H Mooring redeploy Arc

23rd Jan Shoreline PPB Snapper study
15 7.30am

3:19pm 0.24 L 10.30am - Reef Watch Feral or In-peril PV, RWV, Port Gem Pier
4pm Training at Point Cook Phillip (Western
Marine Sanctuary and Point Shoreline) and
Cook Friends Group? Bellarine Peninsula
Ramsar Site
Steering Committee,
UniMelb
Seabird monitoring Birds Australia
volunteers
Sunday Jawbone MS 9:06am 0.88 H 9am-3pm Community Event - Join Gem Pier BYO snorkel,
24th Jan Jawbone Marine Sanctuary mask and
Care Group aboard the wetsuit. Max
Pelican1 and discover 30 participants
16 Jawbone Marine Sanctuary.
Learn about the Sanctuary’s
habitats and marine life.
Includes snorkelling
activity.–
Williamstown 3:57pm 0.22 L Marine Pest Survey UniMelb

5pm – 7pm Community Event - Come Coastcare, City of Open to

aboard the Pelican1 and Hobsins Bay, Parks public
discover Jawbone Marine Victoria
Sanctuary. Meet the Marine
Sanctuary Care Group and
learn about the sanctuary
and the groups activities.

Seabird monitoring Birds Australia

Volunteers
Mon. Williamstown All day REST Gem Pier
17 25th Jan.
 Tuesday Williamstown 10:10am 0.87 9am-3pm Bilingual Tour Guide Group PV, CACC, ABM, Gem Pier
26th Jan H outing. Include Indigenous Swinburne
18 elders & Asylum Seekers
Resource Centre
5:23pm 0.18 L
Australia 5pm – 7pm Community Event - Join the CACC, PV, Hobsons Open to
Day Bilingual Tour Guides Group Bay, PV, VMA public
to celebrate Australia Day.
Learn about our diverse
communities and find out
how your community can
explore our marine and
coastal parks. Include
Indigenous elders.

Wed. Docklands 10:53am 0.85 All day Local Government Local Parks Victoria Docklands
27th Jan. H Ports. Include EPA to talk Association of
19 about maintenance Bayside
dredging. Municipalitites
6:18pm 0.16 L
Thursday Docklands 11:51am 0.82 All day Program Conclusion and All Docklands
20 28th Jan. H Handover
7:25pm 0.15 L