Geelong & the Bellarine

This region tells its own story in unexpected ways, a city that turned its waterfront into an open-air history lesson and a peninsula that turns every drive into a slow one. Geelong's painted bollards line the whole esplanade, real historical figures from the city's past standing in for kilometres along the water. The Bellarine Peninsula stretches out from there, quiet coastal towns and vineyards linked by roads built for wandering. Barwon Heads sits where the river meets the sea, one of the prettiest small towns on this stretch of coast.