March 15, 2024
For the first time in recorded history, Hooded Plovers have chosen to breed and raise two chicks on Lorne’s famous beach. The chicks were protected by an exclusion zone between the rock groyne and Erskine river estuary.
October 25, 2023
The Geelong Cemetery Trust donated a plaque to commemorate the first burial in 1881 in the Lorne Cemetery.
June 22, 2022
Discovery of large 3-4m ‘Deadwood Knee’ – North Lorne Rocks … presumed from old sailing ship. Wood identified as Eucalyptus – suggesting an Australian built ship.
