Sponsored by Fairfax Community Network, publisher of The Mail, the two displays lit up the bayside towns and bathed upturned faces in a series of varying colours from blue to green, pink and white.

The pyrotechnic displays followed celebrations across the length and breadth of the peninsula.

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Picture of fireworks at Schnapper Point in Mornington by Gary Sissons.