Phillip Island Afternoon Day Trip: Encounter Native Australian Animals and Watch Penguin Parade
4.8
325 Ratings
Southbank
Embark on a personalized afternoon day trip to Phillip Island and encounter native Australian animals. Watch the famous Penguin Parade and explore the stunning Nobbies. Limited to 11 passengers.
Duration:
8 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Moonlit Sanctuary Wildlife Conservation Park - See Australia’s unique wildlife
- The Nobbies - watch
- Phillip Island Nature Parks - Penguin Parade - The new visitor centre provides more information about the Little Penguins, souvenir shop and cafe. Here you will see the penguin parade. Times vary depending on season between 90 minutes and two hours.
What's Included
- Nobbies and Seal Rock
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Moonlit Sanctuary
- Live commentary on board
- Transport by air-conditioned minivan
What's Not Included
- Food and drinks
- Gratuities
Additional Information
Experience an unforgettable excursion to Moonlit Sanctuary Conservation Park, getting up close and personal with a variety of indigenous Australian wildlife including koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, dingoes, along with a spectrum of bright birds and reptiles. Take a journey to the Nobbies, the residence of the most expansive colony of fur seals in Australia. Next, you’ll head over to the grand spectacle! Relish the enchantment of a trip to the globally-renowned Phillip Island Penguin Parade where you’ll witness the awe-inspiring spectacle of endearing little penguins emerging from the sea to one of the most populous penguin colonies in Australia. After a lengthy swim, they’ll appear as though they are donning tuxedos - observe the captivating sight of these flightless birds as they shuffle past you on their way home. The tour can be customized according to the season, allowing you to explore Phillip Island at your leisure.
This special tour is designed to be intimate, accommodating only up to 11 participants.
- Children 3 and under not catered for. Booster seat available for children 4 to 7 available.
- Tour not normally suitable for cruise ship passengers. Tour starts between 1 and 2 pm depending on time of year from city centre and finishes between 8:30 PM and 11:45 PM. It is your responsibility to check you can make it on time to avoid missing out on tour and cancellation fees.
Location
Mercure Melbourne Southbank
Riverside Quay
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.8
(325 Ratings)
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Adventure36225437552
Apr 22, 2024
Highly recommended - The tour takes you to the amazing and quiet Moonlit Sanctuary, where you can feed wallabies and see koalas, kangaroos, Tasmanian devils, dingos, emus, local birds, etc. Then you get to see spectacular views of the coast and finally the penguin parade, which is incredible but true. The guide Travis is super knowledgeable, kind, and knows a lot about nature and animals. Highly recommended tour and guide.
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Marjorie_m
Apr 10, 2024
My experience - Seeing the penguins, and learning so much from Travis. We learnt lots of new facts and saw lots of wildlife.
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Bipin_m
Apr 9, 2024
Seeing peguins coming out... - Seeing peguins coming out night and noise they make and finding their family and also driving through and seeing kangaroos
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Jeffrey_o
Apr 6, 2024
Loved the penguins! - Great tour. We all very much enjoyed the visit to Phillip Island as well as stopping at the conservation center to see the wallabies and koalas. Everything was well organized and smooth. Our guide was excellent!
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Clare_p
Apr 4, 2024
Excellent trip and worth to go - i love my tour guide, his name is Allan, he is so funny and gives so much information about the places where we go. I definitely recommend my friends if they go on the day tour in Melbourne or anywhere else in Aussie.
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Thomas_b
Mar 31, 2024
Good to tour Philips Island. - Good day touring Philips Island and Moonlit Sanctuary. It was a busy day, as it was Easter Friday. Unfortunately, it was not the best season for seeing the Pequin Parade, as there was fewer sequins the normal.
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Zoe_f
Mar 30, 2024
Cute penguins - Although the numbers were low it was worth seeing the penguin parade as the waddle up the beach to their burrows.
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Andynevin
Mar 22, 2024
Wonderful tour to Philip Island and watching the Penguins come ashore. - This was a great tour with our excellent and very knowledgeable guide and driver Travis. He went out of his way to make sure we saw everything and had the best experience possible. After visiting the Moonlit Sanctuary and getting close up to Koala bears and Wallaby's we visited Woolamai Surf Beach and had a short stroll on the boardwalk at Nobbies. After dinner at the Penguin viewing location (at our own expense) we walked down to the viewing platform and as darkness fell we watched the amazing scene of at least a thousand penguins arriving from the sea and walking onto the beach before heading off to their burrows. Again a big thank you to Travis for getting us back to Melbourne afterwards quickly and providing further information on the way. We would highly recommend this tour.
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A3433wnlesliec
Mar 20, 2024
Great experience with Travis. - Great trip with Travis who was very informative throughout the trip. Visit to moonlit sanctuary gets you close up with Kangaroos, wallabies, koala. Then onto coffee shop for delicious coffee and cake. Cowes for dinner, then onto the main event watching the penguin parade. Throughout the journey Travis regularly pointed out wildlife and we were lucky to see several wedge tailed eagles.
Highly recommend this tour.
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Johnd_p
Mar 31, 2024
Funny Fantastic Fred, Pitiful Penguin "Parade" - Fred our guide made this a three star (almost 4!) experience, without him it might have barely made two stars. He was a wealth of information and interesting and funny stoies; and he went out of his way to make our near midnight drop off convenient.
The animal exhibit was hot and dusty, with most of the animals laying torpid in the shade. We did get to feed a few wallabies and briefly catch the Tasmanian devil when he came out of his log for a drink of water. We saw more and closer wildlife as we drove around the Penguin peninsula - though that was only wallabies and geese.
Though we bought the "plus" Penguin viewing experience, every seat was NOT a "good seat". The viewing area was crowded and only those who suffered the hard board seating an hour early could see well (those on the very front). Not that that made much of a difference as only about 100 penguins passed that location on this night. In all, the rangers reported around 220 for both viewing areas, FAR SHORT of the hundreds to thousands many reviews gush over.
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