Phillip Island Holiday Accommodation
Located south east of Melbourne, Phillip Island is only a 90 minute drive from Melbourne, and connected to the mainland from San Remo by 640 meter concrete bridge to the island town of Newhaven. Cowes is the main town in Phillip Island , where all the town amenities are readily available.
Phillip island is a place of perfect mixture and balance of leisure and adventure. Whether you are a layback type or enjoy an active type life style, Phillip Island has plenty on offer. Have a go and let your hair down and dance in the the wind at Phillip Island race track, or have a ride on your surf board on the famous Phillip island waves, how about the feel of beach sand between your toes, Phillip Island has miles of sandy beaches ready to be explored. Try a k or 2 of Phillip Island's scenic walking tracks, get your self lost at Phillip Island koala park, be delighted by Phillip Island's penguin parade before dinner and retire at our Phillip Island accommodation to recharge ready for the next day.
Phillip Island is not only well known for the home of its little penguins but also a great base to visit the Island's surrounding natural attractions, have a short trip by boat to the largest colony of Australian Fur Seals, 1.5km offshore east of Phillip Island at Seal Rocks. But if a short boat trip is out of your comfort zone then the seal colony can be seen with the latest computer technology by zooming the computer screen to the rocks via joy stick from the eastern end of island at The Nobbies cafe.
To say Phillip Island is a bird-watcher's paradise is an understatement, with Rhyll Inlet on the north coast being home to a wide variety of wading birds including oyster catchers, herons, eggrets and spoonbills etc, Swan Lake being an important habitat for black swans, and the pinacle of bird watching spectacle is marked by the arrival of shearwater birds on September the 24th, when the evening skies above Phillip Island darken as Short-tailed Shearwater birds begin to arrive on the island after completing a 16,000km journey from the Bering Strait around the Aleutian Islands near Alaska . They come to breed in sand dune burrows on Phillip island. During the summer months, over one million short-tailed shearwaters are on the Island. In 1996, the State Government created an award winning not-for-profit organisation called Phillip Island Nature Parks which protects the natural wonders of the island. With the expertise applied at the Phillip Island Nature park natural attractions on Phillip Island are the best and sustainable.
Another hidden treasure in Phillip Island is its petit little sister Island called Churchill Island, only a short bridge away from Phillip island Churchill Island is a history wraped in time, encapsulated by a tiny land just a stone throw north east of Phillip Island. Churchill Island was discovered, along with Phillip Island, by George Bass and Matthew Flinders in 1798.
Three years later Lieutenant James Grant constructed a simple cottage on Churchill Island and planted corn and wheat with seeds supplied by his friend John Churchill¸ after whom he named the island. This was the first European settlement in Victoria. He also raised a blockhouse measuring 24 x 12 feet. Grant wrote in his journal: "I scarcely know a place I would rather call mine than this little island."
In 1866 John Rogers took up residence on the island and built two small cottages. Six years later the island was purchased by Samuel Amess who built a weatherboard homestead. These buildings are still standing and are the principal historic attractions on the island.
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