Relive Boom Times On A Walk Through Queenscliff

IN 1853, James Baillieu came to Port Phillip as a sailor on the Priscilla, which anchored at the quarantine station off Portsea. Tired of the captain's bullying, he jumped ship and was washed up across the bay at Shortland Bluff, Queenscliff. Baillieu found work as a boatman before becoming assistant lighthouse keeper of the Point Lonsdale lighthouse. By then it was the booming 1880s and the enterprising Baillieu managed to borrow enough money to build what is now known as the Ozone Hotel - one ...