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Our profiles showcase the very best components of what each LTP member does. From scenery to shopfronts they are generally photo essays from our memorable experiences with each end every LTP member.

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Rare Hare

Food & Drink
Accommodation, Australia, Cellar Door, Coffee, Doot Doot Doot, Emily Floyd, Food, Guy Stanaway, Hotel, Jackalope, Josh Ogilvie, Kitchen, Lewis Lee, Local, Luxury, Mornington Peninsula, Peninsula, Rare Hare, Restaurant, Sculpture, Victoria, Willow Creek Vineyard Wines
There’s a buzz in the air on Mornington Peninsula, and it comes in the form of a contemporary cutting edge designer hotel, formal restaurant, smart bar, casual dining experience and cellar door. The name is Jackalope – and it’s the new home of Willow Creek Vineyard Wines. The vision of Louis Li's, a 29 year old Chinese national who has been living in Melbourne for ten years, Willow Creek Vineyard is now the site for the world’s first Jackalope Hotel.  Moving here as an 18 year old to study film making, Louis Li is well versed in luxury property development with his parents being involved in a number of luxury hotels and residential properties in Kunming in south western China.  So in a sense his first solo project is following in the tradition of his family business.   Being a film maker Lewis Lee is a great storyteller, and his first foray into hospitality shows his appetite for art and design and food culture, which shines through every element in this property.  His debut Jackalope Hotel in Merricks will be followed by a 40 room hotel in Flinders Lane which is scheduled to open in 2019.

Bentons Road Vet

Wellbeing
Animals, Bentons, Care, Cats, Clinic, Conditions, Dogs, Dogtreats, Local, Medicine, mornington, Mornington Peninsula, Natural, Puppy, Puppy School, Shop, Skin, Support, Surgery, Vet
Walking into Bentons Rd Veterinary Clinic, you immediately feel at ease, and that is exactly the feeling that Dr Kelly Halls and her team have worked very hard to create. They want both the humans and the animals that visit their clinic to feel comfortable, and for it to be a stress free experience for all creatures, great and small.

Blue Range Estate Wines

Food & Drink
Accommodation, Australia, Blue Range Estate, Buy, Cellar Door, Eat, Explore, Food, Friends, Garden, jo and cosi, Lifestyle, Local, lunch, Mornington Peninsula, Peninsula, Rosebud, Tourist, Victoria, View, Villas, Vineyard, Water, Weekend, Weekend Getaway, Wine, Winery
“Wow!” The three letter word that Jo and Cosi Melone hear every time a guest steps out of their car and breathes in the view. It is indeed unexpected, a delightful surprise, and breathtaking. Set on a hidden hill that rises over the back of Rosebud and is sheltered by Waterfall Gully, the Blue Range Estate’s view is expansive. Stretching from Western Port Bay and Bass Strait across the Portsea Peninsula and into Port Phillip Bay, the view is unique, and extraordinary.

Finesse Catering Group

Food & Drink
BBQ, Birthdays, catering, celebrate, chef, Commonfolk, cook, Corporate, dinner, dromana, Eat, Event, Experience, Feast, finesse catering group, Flinders, Food, Freedom, Glass Studio, Gourmet, Group, Inspire, Kitchen, Local, Mornington Peninsula, Peninsula, Private Dining, Private Parties, shared, Speakeasy, table feast, Tanglewood, Thailand, Weddings, Yacht Club
Brad and Roong Holtz of Finesse Catering Group are a formidable team. Passionate, creative and classically trained, their worlds collided when Brad attended one of Roong’s cooking classes in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, where Roong taught tourists and professional chefs the art of traditional Thai cooking. At the time Brad was working as a chef on small private yachts in Alaska and Mexico but they found a way to be together, moving to the Mornington Peninsula in 2007.

Butterfly Retreats

Retreat
Accommodation, Butterfly Retreats, Family, Gallery, Garden, Local, Mornington Peninsula, Peninsula, Retreat, Stay, Victoria, Vineyard, Wedding, Weekend, Wine
Butterfly Retreats in Red Hill is an experience for the whole family. Set on four acres of cleared grassland with mature European trees, fruit trees and an olive grove, there is something special to experience everywhere you wander throughout this picturesque property. Nestled between Lindenderry at Red Hill and Eldridge Estate, the property is flanked by vineyards providing a colourful vista ever changing with the seasons.

Main Ridge Olive Oil Co

Food & Drink
Australia, Bottle, Burraworin Estate, CBD, Fine Food Awards, Flinders, grocer shop, Grove, Harvest, Local, local pantry, Main Ridge Olive Oil, Mornington Peninsula, Oil, Olives, Paringa, Peninsula, Picking, Purchase, Red Hill, Shoreham, Tim Jupp, Virgin
Tim Jupp is full of surprises, experienced and focused beyond his years. Young and talented, this fine dining chef has moved away from the 80 hour working weeks his chosen profession demands to chef at Commonfolk in Mornington, where the hours are much more conducive to family life. Given that he and his wife Michelle have four children under the age of 11, you can understand his life choices.

Dolphin Research Institute

Experiences
Australia, Balnarring, Bay, Beach, Boat, Care, Children, Dolphin, Dolphin Research Institute, dromana, environment, Flinders, Hastings, Iseeicare, Jetski, Local, Marine, Mornington Peninsula, Peninsula, Pollution, Protect, Sea, Shoreham, Sorrento
The Dolphin Research Institute is based at Hastings, on the shores of Western Port. DRI’s efforts are focused in the south-eastern region of Australia, especially Port Phillip, Western Port and the Gippsland Lakes.

Georgie Bass Cafe & Cookery

Food & Drink
Breakfast, Buy, cake, Coffee, Cooking, Cooking Classes, Flinders, Food, Garden, Health, Kitchen, Local, lunch, Mornington Peninsula, Peninsula, Restaurant, Shop, Smoothies, Stay, Weekend
Welcome to Georgie Bass, the latest food experience in the heart of Flinders that combines a café & cookery. Inspiration for the name comes from George Bass, the legendary sailor who accompanied his good friend Matthew Flinders when they were charting Bass Strait to Tasmania.