The picture-perfect Bushrangers Bay can be found near Cape Schanck on the ocean side of the Mornington Peninsula. The seemingly serene beach, however, is contrasted both by the brooding headlands and wild waves that crash onto jagged rocks that guard the entrance as well as by a dark past. The bay is named after two escaped convicts, ‘bushrangers’, who made it ashore at this very spot after fleeing Van Diemans Land.