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With a Koala Conservation Centre, Penguin Parade, and lots of hiking trails, you might find that one day just isn't enough to explore all that Phillip Island has to offer. If you need a place to camp or stay in a cabin for a multiple day visit, check out Big 4 Ingenia Holiday Park on Phillip Island. To find it, you won't have to travel far past the bridge to Phillip Island from the mainland, because your first left turn will take you to the Holiday Park. ...Read more.

Cape Woolamai is a 308-hectar (760-acre) reserve established in 1968. The preserve protects the southeast end of Phillip Island and also the highest point on the island, a 112-meters-above-sea-level crest on the bluffs at the top of Cape Woolamai. The summit isn't much of a climb, so sandy beaches and stunning granite cliffs are the real draw for hikers. ...Read more.

While it only covers about one hundred square kilometers, Phillip Island in Victoria Australia has numerous opportunities to see wildlife. To see koalas amongst the eucalyptus, the place to go is the Koala Conservation Reserve. Koala Conservation Reserve has an informative visitor center, walking trails, and elevated boardwalks where you see koalas up close. ...Read more.

The western end of Phillip Island holds two of the island's top attractions, the Nobbies and the Penguin Parade, which can be connected by an oceanfront stroll through a scenic reserve on the southern coast of Phillip Island. This walk is not actually along a trail, but on a gravel road that can be used by hikers, bikers, and drivers. Why go for a hike on a road you could drive on? ...Read more.

In the morning and early afternoon, Summerlands Beach is a low-key place to visit, with a surf break and lots of sand for building castles or having a picnic. In the evening, the beach transforms as visitors gather to watch the Penguin Parade, a nightly return of thousands of little penguins that commute up the beach to burrows in the surrounding bluffs. ...Read more.

Phillip Island in Victoria, Australia has a lot to offer its visitors, like beautiful coastlines and the internationally-heralded Penguin Parade. Point Grant, the western tip of Phillip Island is just a few kilometers past the Penguin Parade facilities at Summerlands Beach and home to a seal colony, dramatic sea bluffs, and panoramic ocean views. Point Grant is better known as the Nobbies, a name that comes either from the domes at the end of the point or from areas of cobblestone rocks that can poke out of the water like knobs when the tide is at the right level. ...Read more.

Pyramid Rock is a triangle-shaped rock island just off the southern coast of Phillip Island, a popular destination in Victoria, Australia made famous by the Penguin Parade. A short 800 meter (0.5 miles) round trip return walk travels out onto a grassy point approaching Pyramid Rock. Overlooks at the midway point and the end of this short trail allow hikers to take in coastal views that extend to both ends of the 26-kilometer long island, from Cape Woolamai to the east to Point Grant to the west. ...Read more.