The ‘Dog Rocks’ is a reserve located within the town that obtained its name from local wild dogs that once lived around the rocks. Indigenous Australian’s believe the ‘Dog Rocks’ to be haunted.
The Dog Rocks Flora and Fauna Sanctuary, near Geelong, was established when the previous owner George Belcher’s great grandfather purchased the property in 1856. The Belcher Family has preserved the Sanctuary as valuable and beautiful natural bush land for over a century, and it has become an important area of conservation for our rapidly disappearing flora and fauna.
The Sanctuary is situated adjacent to the Dog Rocks outcrop on the top of a hill in west Batesford, west of Geelong, in Victoria.
The Dog Rocks themselves, as well as the rocks in the Sanctuary, are an outcrop of Devonian granite (similar to the You Yangs), intruded some 350 million years ago, the highest point now being just over 100 metres above sea level. Imagine some 15 million years ago, (when the underlying Batesford limestone was being formed), a warm sea extending over and beyond the area with the Dog Rocks forming an island. The nearby limestone quarry has subsequently revealed many sea fossils.
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