A private tour combining Phillip Island wildlife with Melbourne's real Brighton Beach.
A private tour for your group only, real stops at Phillip Island's Nobbies fur-seal colony and the genuine Brighton Beach bathing boxes.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include the Nobbies Centre fur-seal colony and the genuine, iconic Brighton Beach bathing boxes.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in Melbourne.
Genuine Phillip Island wildlife viewpoint.
Genuine, iconic colourful huts.
Just your group.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, real stops at Phillip Island's Nobbies fur-seal colony and the genuine Brighton Beach bathing boxes. This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include the Nobbies Centre fur-seal colony and the genuine, iconic Brighton Beach bathing boxes.
The Nobbies, at the westernmost tip of Phillip Island, are named for the rock stacks — or "nobs" — that jut out of the water just offshore, the most notable being Seal Rocks. The formations themselves are weathered basalt, extruded during a series of volcanic eruptions roughly 40 to 48 million years ago when this part of Victoria sat at the edge of the ancient Gondwana landmass. Boardwalks lead visitors out along the headland for views across to Seal Rocks, home to an estimated 16,000 Australian fur seals, making it the largest fur seal colony in the country — a population most people only ever see from this exact vantage point.
From there the tour heads back toward Melbourne and across to Brighton, on the opposite, bayside edge of the city, for a stop at one of Melbourne's most photographed stretches of coastline: the Brighton Bathing Boxes on Dendy Street Beach. These brightly painted, weatherboard huts with corrugated-iron roofs trace back to the 1860s, when bathing boxes first appeared along Brighton's shoreline to give swimmers a private place to change. The current row was relocated to Dendy Street in 1934 after storms and the Great Depression thinned out the originals, and in 1998 the Victorian Heritage Council formally listed the boxes and the beach for their historical and aesthetic significance to the state.
The pairing makes for a genuinely wide-ranging day — raw volcanic coastline and a fur seal colony on one end, a piece of Melbourne's Victorian-era beach culture on the other, both within a single private tour.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.