Bonbeach

The Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands are a group of two principally freshwater swamps, totalling 261 hectares (640 acres), lying in the suburbs of Aspendale, Edithvale, Chelsea Heights, and Seaford in south-eastern Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Together they form the Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands Ramsar Site.

Bonbeach is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 31 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. At the 2016 census, Bonbeach had a population of 6,416.

Bonbeach railway station is located on the Frankston line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Bonbeach, and it opened on 15 February 1926.Boom barriers replaced hand gates at the former Bondi Road level crossing, which was located at the Down end of the station, in 1977.

Carrum railway station is located on the Frankston line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Carrum, and it opened on 1 August 1882.Boom barriers replaced interlocked gates at the former Station Street level crossing, which was located at the Up end of the station, in 1977.

The Carrum Carrum Swamp encompassed 52 square kilometres with a catchment area of 735 square kilometres. It had four outlets to the Port Phillip Bay, including Kananook Creek/Eel Race Drain, Patterson River and Mordialloc Creek. Explorer William Hovell discovered "a very extensive fresh water marsh, from 12 to 15 miles long and 11/2 to 6 broad, and only separated from Port Phillip by a narrow ridge or bank of sand not more than from two hundred to three hundred yards wide." A painting titled “Lagoon in the Carrum Carrum Swamp – evening 1872” by James W Curtis is held at the National Gallery of Australia.