Blind Bight, Victoria

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Blind Bight
Victoria
Population: 1,281 (2006) [1]
Postcode: 3980
Location:
LGA: City of Casey
State District: Hastings
Federal Division: Flinders

Blind Bight is a town on Westernport Bay, just off the South Gippsland Highway about 60 km south-east of Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Casey.

Blind Bight is a mangrove area, offering birdwatching opportunities and walking tracks along the foreshore and in surrounding bushland. The town contains a community centre, Sanjos general store, take-away food and post office, playground and basketball court, BMX tracks, and picnic facilities and a lookout over the bay. Of the coastal villages in the area it is the most populated and developed.

It is serviced periodically by the 795 bus route operated by Cranbourne Transit.

[edit] Education

Most of the children in the area go to Tooradin Primary School, Koo Wee Rup Secondary College or Cranbourne Secondary College. School buses are operated by Westernport Road Lines, Cranbourne Transit and Berwick Bus Lines.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). Blind Bight (State Suburb). 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved on 2007-09-15.

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