Except for the purposes of private study, research or review, as listed under the copyright law, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission of the copyright owner. Phillip Island is a 90-minute drive from Melbourne. The entrance to Phillip Island is at San Remo where a high span bridge connects the island to the mainland. Over the bridge is a turn off to Cape Woolamai. Cape Woolamai is a granite batholith protruding into Bass Strait and is a designated national park.
Steep cliffs surround the cape and there are well marked walking tracks throughout the park.
Pegmatite veins and large crystals of feldspar and quartz are known to occur in the granite cliffs. Further along at Kitty Miller Bay, cliffs of volcanic basalt flows crop out along the shoreline. Sometimes, small rounded translucent agate nodules can be found in the cliff faces. Walking around the point to the wreck, abundant zeolite and calcite crystals are evident in the basalt platforms, filling vesicles and fractures in the basalt flows. The remainder of Phillip Island largely consists of a mixture of marine sediments and basalt flows.