Hobsons Bay Trail

The Hobsons Bay Coastal Trail traces 17 km of Melbourne's western shoreline, where the bay opens out past the old timber piers of Williamstown. We draw it from real map data, matched to the road itself. The route is verified against the real road, and your poster ships straight away.

Make it yours: 17 art styles, 19 colourways and your own title, with the poster redrawing live as you pick.

Giclée-printed at 300 dpi on 200 gsm matte art paper. Framed posters come in black, white or natural timber, ready to hang.

The preview is the finished poster. What you approve on screen is exactly what we print, with no proof to wait on.

The route

The trail follows the shoreline from Altona Point to the mouth of the Yarra, with Port Phillip Bay open on one side and the old naval buildings of Williamstown close on the other. Convicts laid the first stone pier at Point Gellibrand in 1852 and 1853, and the colony rebuilt it as a proper breakwater pier through 1859 to 1861 to handle the wool and grain trade sailing out of Melbourne.

The bluestone Timeball Tower on the point, built the same year that first pier went in, dropped a ball from its mast at exactly one o'clock every day until 1926 so ships offshore could set their chronometers against it. HMAS Castlemaine, a corvette built to sweep mines in the Second World War, still sits afloat at Gem Pier, kept running by volunteers since 1974.

Walkers pass all three within the first few kilometres of the trail.

Made for someone who walked it. Or for your own wall, because you did.

Related routes: Cradle Summit, Larapinta Trail and Milford Track.

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