Tiny Phillip Island provides a delightful diversion on your coastal journey, and is famous for its nightly penguin parade. Each day at sunset dozens of fairy penguins emerge from the ocean at Summerland beach and shuffle through the spiky, clumpy grass to their nests.
Shearwaters fly annually between here and Alaska, seals cavort around the rocks at The Nobbies and koalas can be seen at the conservation center.
The rugged southern coastline facing Bass Strait has roaring surf beaches and every morning the pelicans are fed at San Remo, a display of leaps, flutters and squabbles. Cowes is the main town and offers a range of lively restaurants specializing in fresh lobster and shellfish.
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Places near Phillip Island
- Mornington Peninsula 25 kilometers away
- Queenscliff 56 kilometers away
- Melbourne 74 kilometers away
- Yarra Valley & Dandenong Ranges 92 kilometers away
- Wilsons Promontory National Park 109 kilometers away
- Walhalla 121 kilometers away
- Apollo Bay 141 kilometers away
- The Great Ocean Road 143 kilometers away
- Daylesford & Macedon Ranges 159 kilometers away
- Victoria 161 kilometers away
- The Shipwreck Coast 186 kilometers away
- The Gippsland Lakes 204 kilometers away
- Metung 237 kilometers away
- Stanley 256 kilometers away
- Port Fairy 263 kilometers away
- The Grampians National Park 289 kilometers away
- Deloraine 361 kilometers away
- Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park 367 kilometers away
- Launceston 368 kilometers away
- Croajingolong National Park 377 kilometers away
- Gipsy Point 405 kilometers away
- Strahan & Gordon River 410 kilometers away
- Tasmania 425 kilometers away
- Merimbula 447 kilometers away
- The Sapphire Coast 469 kilometers away
- Swansea 472 kilometers away
- Mount Field National Park 478 kilometers away