Ocean Grove

Ocean Grove is a shoreline town in Victoria, Australia, situated on the Bellarine Peninsula. At the 2016 enumeration, Ocean Grove had a populace of 14,165. In 1869, American Methodists built up a perpetual religious camp network on the drift at Ocean Grove, New Jersey, in the United States of America. It was successful to the point that they chose to spread their camps abroad, including to Australia. Following a coordinated effort with the Victorian Methodists, an underlying camp was set up close Point Lonsdale.

By 1882 they expected to get a bigger territory, so they could build up their Australian Ocean Grove people group. The site picked was on the eastern side of the mouth of the Barwon River, sitting above Bass Strait. Presently the biggest town on the Bellarine Peninsula, Ocean Grove has the biggest mall on the landmass. Just a couple of squares from the shoreline, it is well known with travelers and local people alike. In 2005 another strip mall was worked in the Collendina territory, enabling local people to shop at the two Coles and Woolworths grocery stores.

Ocean Grove has an inhabitant populace of around 12,000 which, amid the school summer occasions, swells to four times this number as vacationers from Melbourne, Geelong, interstate, and abroad rush in. The zone offers surf shorelines, angling, kayaking, paddling, bushwalking and other open air exercises. The Ocean Grove Nature Reserve safeguards some leftover local forest and contains strolling tracks.