When the aboriginals reached Victoria the land was not as we know it. That exposed part of the coast which is now pounded by surf was silent and dry. No waves rolled majestically towards the beach at Lorne and Portsea and Lakes Entrance. Those dark people who first roamed near the site of Melbourne had to make a long journey in a canoe if the wished to reach the sea. There was no Port Phillip Bay: the present bed of the bay was dry and across that land flowed the Yarra.