Phillip Island Accommodation

Why not have some places to stay in the great Phillip Island. It can be an awesome place to stay. You might want to stay in a cottage, cabin, house, mansion apartment, flat in the island. You might want to rent, sell, hire, buy, share, to invest in property in the island. It may be you want to work, vacation or retire on the island.

Phillip Island is located about 140km away from Melbourne.

Named after Governor Arthur Phillip, Phillip Island in Victoria, Australia, forms a natural breakwater for the shallow waters of Western Port Bay. The island area is approximately 10,000 hectares and 26 kilometres long and 9 kilometres at its widest. It has 97km of coastline, and is part of the Bass Coast Shire.

Phillip Island a tourist destination visited by 3.5 million people annually. The Penguin Parade at Phillip Island Nature Park, in which Little Penguins come ashore in groups, attracts visitors from all over the world, who come to see one of the few areas where this species of penguin can be seen. Another popular tourist attraction is the Seal Rocks, which host the largest colony of fur seals in Australia ( up to 16,000 ).

The island is recognised as having some of the most consistently reliable and varied surf conditions in the country. The island has hosted various surf events in the past, such as the Rip Curl Pro in 2005 and the Roxy Pro Women's Surfing Festival.

Fishing, pleasure boating and yachting are some of the popular pastimes on the bay.

Why not see activites such as; Penguin Reserve - visited at dusk to watch the penguins return to their burrows in the sand dunes, View the Seal Rocks - viewed through binoculars, Koala Conservation Centre, Bird watching.

Phillip Island experiences milder weather than Melbourne and is tempered by ocean breezes.

On New Year's Eve the island hosts the Pyramid Rock Festival. Other events include the Churchill Island Working Horse and Pioneer Festival.

Towns on and around the island include:

Beachcomber, Cape Woolamai, Cowes, Cowes East, Cowes West, Newhaven, Rhyll, San Remo, Silverleaves,
Smith's Beach, Summerland, Sunderland Bay, Sunset Strip, Surf Beach, Ventnor, Wimbledon Heights

San Remo is a town in southern Victoria, Australia in the Gippsland region. Formed as a fishing village, , its economy is now more largely based around tourism. It is also notable as the town on the mainland side of the bridge to Phillip Island.

A 640 metre concrete bridge connects the mainland town San Remo with the island town Newhaven. In the 2001 Census the island's permanent population was 7071. During the summer, the population swells to 40,000. 60% of the island is farmland devoted to grazing of sheep and cattle. Churchill Island and the area around it served as the location for the 1977 Australian film Summerfield.

Western Port ( also known incorrectly as Western Port Bay ) is an inlet on the southern coast of Australia from Bass Strait and the Pacific Ocean, adjacent and to the east of Port Phillip on which is sited Melbourne, the capital city of the state of Victoria. Western Port is separated from Port Phillip by the Mornington Peninsula. Western Port is listed under the Ramsar Convention on wetlands.

Bass Coast Shire is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia. It is located in the south-eastern part of the state, less than 90 minutes from Melbourne, and includes the popular tourist destination, Phillip Island. It has an area of 859 square kilometres. In 2006 it had a population of 26,548.

Gippsland is a large rural region in Victoria, Australia. It begins immediately east of the suburbs of Melbourne and stretches to the New South Wales border, lying between the Great Dividing Range to the north and Bass Strait to the south. The region is best known for its primary production such as mining, power generation and farming as well as its tourist destinations— Phillip Island, Wilsons Promontory, the Gippsland Lakes, Walhalla, the Baw Baw Plateau, the Strzelecki Ranges and the Gourmet Deli Region.

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