Devilbend Natural Features Reserve is a natural reserve park in the rural locality of Tuerong on the Mornington Peninsula in central southern Victoria, Australia, southeast of the state capital Melbourne's city center. The park contains two decommissioned water supply reservoirs, the Devilbend Reservoir and Bittern Reservoir, which are less than apart and linked by an often-dry drainage channel. These reservoirs were the original reason the surrounding parkland was protected from general public access and was not subjected to land development. Both reservoirs are along the course of the eponymous Devilbend Creek, a left tributary of the much larger Balcombe Creek that drains into Port Phillip Bay at Mount Martha. Nearby just in the north, there is a much smaller, unnamed third lake further downstream along the creek in the neighboring locality of Moorooduc, next to a golf course within what is known as the Devilbend Recreation Reserve. History The nowaday Devilbend Reserve parkland is located within the traditional country of the Bunurong people, part of the indigenous Kulin nation. The Bittern Reservoir, the smaller of the two reservoirs with a capacity of , was built in the 1930s. The much larger Devilbend Reservoir, with an area of and a capacity of , was built during the 1960s and opened in 1965, and is currently the largest freshwater body in the Shire of Mornington Peninsula. The two reservoirs provided backup drinking water to the Mornington Peninsula until the completion of a water pipeline between the Cardinia Reservoir and Pearcedale in December 2000 made them redundant. In September 2006, most of the reservoir land was transferred to Parks Victoria with the Devilbend Natural Features Reserve being gazetted on 8 March 2007. A management plan for the reserve was voted in 2010, and in 2011 a new masterplan aiming to turn the area into a tourist area was prepared. The Devilbend Foundation was created in 2002 to lobby against recreational fishing in the Devilbend Reserve, and against horseriding in the vicinity, arguing it would compromise the natural equilibrium of the park. In 2012, after 6 years of land renovation that required a budget $1.6 million, the reserve reopened to the public. The reserve was inaugurated by Peter Walsh, and took the name Devilbend Natural Features Reserve on this day. Among the new features of the park are the entrance gateway, the asphalt entrance road, sealed car park, the picnic and barbecue facilities, the