Walkerville South is the small holiday settlement on the western shore of Waratah Bay where, from the 1870s to the 1920s, limestone quarried from the cliffs was burned in six kilns whose ruins still stand at the southern end of the beach, and it is the Cape Liptrap coast's sheltered swimming, rock-pooling and snorkelling beach. Visit Gippsland describes a flat, narrow foreshore that is kid-friendly for swimming and rock pooling, with access along the beach to Walkerville North at low tide, and no boat launching. What is there is a limestone and mudstone shoreline sheltered by Cape Liptrap, with rock ledges and weed beds running out from the cliff base below the kilns into the sandy bay at 2–10 m: kelp and mixed algae on the rock, sea stars, crabs, abalone and small crayfish in the crevices, wrasse, leatherjackets, zebrafish, mullet and juvenile fish over the reef, stingarees and flathead on the sand, and, in the clear water Waratah Bay is known for on calm days, the occasional seadragon along the weed edge.

The bay's eastern aspect means it is calm in the westerly weather that closes the ocean coast, and its facilities – caravan park, toilets, car parks and a store in summer – make it easy. Waratah Bay is also the western approach to the Prom's Glennie Group from the Sandy Point beach ramp on the bay's eastern side, and divers camping at Walkerville for a Prom trip use the beach as a check-out dive or a blown-out-day snorkel. Treat it as a pleasant, sheltered, shallow snorkel-and-scuba beach with historic interest rather than a destination.

From Fish Creek on the South Gippsland Highway take Walkerville Road south for about 20 km to Walkerville South (2.5 hours from Melbourne). The lower car park beside the caravan park is very busy in summer; use the upper car park and walk down – 5–10 minutes with gear. Walk south along the flat, narrow foreshore towards the lime kilns and enter off the sand or the rock edge; exit the same way.

There is no boat launching at Walkerville South. Walkerville North is reachable along the beach at low tide.

Walkerville South faces east into Waratah Bay and is sheltered from the prevailing south-westerly by Cape Liptrap, which is what makes it a swimming and family beach; it is exposed to easterly and south-easterly wind and swell, which produce chop and surf on the beach. Best on a westerly or south-westerly wind with small residual swell, at high tide for depth over the inshore rock. Summer and autumn; very crowded in January.

Enter at the southern end of the beach below the kilns, follow the limestone rock edge south with the shore on your right over reef and weed at 3–8 m, turn at half gas and return along the same edge at a shallower depth to the beach. A relaxed dive of 45–60 minutes; snorkellers work the rock edge from the surface.

No dive shop on the Bunurong coast; sites are dived by independent divers and Melbourne/Gippsland clubs (SEADS – South East Australian Dive Society, Dive La Trobe, VSAG). Nearest air fills in Melbourne's south-east or by arrangement in the Latrobe Valley.