Phillip Island Family Activities

It is dusk. Your children (rugged up from the cool night air) sit next to you on the elevated seats overlooking Summerland Beach, Phillip Island, Victoria. Their eyes scan the water. Over there! A tiny black head of one of the world's smallest penguins pops out of the water. Followed by another and another. Each little Phillip Island penguin surfs the waves in to shore. Your kids squeal with excitement.

The first little penguin, as the fairy penguins on Phillip Island are now called, waddles up the beach and into its burrow in the sand dunes. Soon the Phillip Island penguins appear in crowds, almost like stars walking the red carpet at a movie premiere. Once your family takes part in the nightly Phillip Island penguin parade, one of the best loved Melbourne attractions, it creates a memory that will last a lifetime.

But Phillip Island attractions offer more than just penguins for families. Off the Nobbies is Seal Rocks, best known for its seal colony of up to 12,000 fur seals. Australian fur seals live and breed on these rocks, fishing in the seas off Melbourne Victoria. Your family can join a boat tour near the rocks to see the baby and mother seals more closely.

Back on dry land, visit the Koala Conservation Centre and stroll the tree-top boardwalk to view koalas in their natural habitat. Take your kids fishing on Phillip Island at Rhyll Fishing Park. This park has 2 fishing lakes - one which is indoors where the plate-sized rainbow trout guarantee even the most inexperienced angler a 'catch of the day'.

Phillip Island is 90 minutes south-east of Melbourne, Australia.

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