Anne-Marie’s guidebook
Sightseeing
10 Minute drive from River View Home.
World Class Experience. Drive into an old volcano with rich history and Australian wild life and plant life. Informative award winning guided tours available with Boomerang Throwing and local Indigenous insights.
110 locals recommend
Tower Hill Wildlife Reserve
105 Lake View Rd10 Minute drive from River View Home.
World Class Experience. Drive into an old volcano with rich history and Australian wild life and plant life. Informative award winning guided tours available with Boomerang Throwing and local Indigenous insights.
10 Minute drive from River View Home.
Great family adventure and history.
51 locals recommend
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village
89 Merri St10 Minute drive from River View Home.
Great family adventure and history.
15 Minute drive from River View Home.
The falls are among Victoria's widest at an impressive 90 metres.
8 locals recommend
Hopkins Falls
15 Minute drive from River View Home.
The falls are among Victoria's widest at an impressive 90 metres.
10 Minute drive from River View Home.
A favorite spot of mine. Especially walking down to the rock pools on low tide. A nurturing healing spot.
Pickering Point Lookout
Pickering Point Trail10 Minute drive from River View Home.
A favorite spot of mine. Especially walking down to the rock pools on low tide. A nurturing healing spot.
10 Minute drive from River View Home.
Best Sunset viewing. Best world class short coastal walk around to Pickering Piont and through to Lady Bay Breakwater. Easy well set out path with sensational rugged coast views close to the cliff face of the ocean! A great spot to feel the ever expanding energy. See the big picture as birds soar above out to sea.
30 locals recommend
Thunder Point
10 Minute drive from River View Home.
Best Sunset viewing. Best world class short coastal walk around to Pickering Piont and through to Lady Bay Breakwater. Easy well set out path with sensational rugged coast views close to the cliff face of the ocean! A great spot to feel the ever expanding energy. See the big picture as birds soar above out to sea.
10 Minute drive from River View Home.
Beauiful local young family paddle beach. View of Middle Island (penguin island).
9 locals recommend
Stingray Bay
61 Viaduct Rd10 Minute drive from River View Home.
Beauiful local young family paddle beach. View of Middle Island (penguin island).
20 Minute drive from River View Home.
Old Whaling Town. Great food, shopping, art and scenery.
60 locals recommend
Port Fairy
20 Minute drive from River View Home.
Old Whaling Town. Great food, shopping, art and scenery.
10 Minute drive from River View Home.
Great family play grounds, bike & boat hire and covered barbeque areas. Summer Friday night Markets.
28 locals recommend
Lake Pertobe
10 Minute drive from River View Home.
Great family play grounds, bike & boat hire and covered barbeque areas. Summer Friday night Markets.
13 Minute drive from River View Home.
Beautiful Ocean Views with whale nursery viewing. In the winter months between June and September we often see female Southern Right whales with their calves.
49 locals recommend
Logans Beach Whale Watching Platform
11-13 Logans Beach Rd13 Minute drive from River View Home.
Beautiful Ocean Views with whale nursery viewing. In the winter months between June and September we often see female Southern Right whales with their calves.
8 Minute drive from River View Home.
Rugged wild ocean surf and fishing beach closest to Dennington. Too rough to swim though magical to view and walk along pristine sand and experience the raw energy of the sea.
Levys Point Coastal Reserve
LOT 1 Swinton St8 Minute drive from River View Home.
Rugged wild ocean surf and fishing beach closest to Dennington. Too rough to swim though magical to view and walk along pristine sand and experience the raw energy of the sea.
12 Minute drive from River View Home.
Beautiful view overlooking where the great Hopkins River joins the deep blue of the Southern Ocean. A place to feel the great rich spirit of Australia with perhaps over 80,000 years of Indigenous food sourced here.
8 locals recommend
Moyjil / Point Ritchie
Point Ritchie Road12 Minute drive from River View Home.
Beautiful view overlooking where the great Hopkins River joins the deep blue of the Southern Ocean. A place to feel the great rich spirit of Australia with perhaps over 80,000 years of Indigenous food sourced here.
Kayak from the Merri River Banks at River View Home.
Enter another world by kayaking down the Merri River in Dennington down to the Breakwater at Warrnambool Beach. Experience a really peaceful, beautiful and simply awesome adventure filled with the rich wild life. With fish jumping, Australian swamp wallabies, Ibis, pelicans, Black-shouldered Kites, Eagles, Swamp Harriers, Falcons, Hawks, Moorhens, Ducks, Purple Swamphens, Herons, Great Egret, Australian Water Rats so beautiful and so many more birds.
Merri River
Kayak from the Merri River Banks at River View Home.
Enter another world by kayaking down the Merri River in Dennington down to the Breakwater at Warrnambool Beach. Experience a really peaceful, beautiful and simply awesome adventure filled with the rich wild life. With fish jumping, Australian swamp wallabies, Ibis, pelicans, Black-shouldered Kites, Eagles, Swamp Harriers, Falcons, Hawks, Moorhens, Ducks, Purple Swamphens, Herons, Great Egret, Australian Water Rats so beautiful and so many more birds.
13 Minute drive from River View Home.
Beautiful Beach our local safe family swim beach. Great fun finding star fish, shells, crabs in rock pools and beautiful beach walks.
13 locals recommend
Killarney Beach
13 Minute drive from River View Home.
Beautiful Beach our local safe family swim beach. Great fun finding star fish, shells, crabs in rock pools and beautiful beach walks.
Art
Warrnambool Art Gallery
26 Liebig StThe F Project
224 Timor StFOOD
Pavilion Cafe & Bar
50 Viaduct RdBest Ocean view with coffee or fresh fruit drink.
Mickey Bourke's Koroit Hotel
101 Commercial RdGreat old pub and pub food.
Pronto Fine Food Merchants
765 Raglan ParadeHigh quality deli and coffee
Bojangles Pizza Restaurant
61 Liebig StCattleya Thai Restaurant
142 Timor StSalt Cafe Restaurant Wine
76 Liebig StKebabs on Kepler
38 Kepler StWoolsthorpe National Hotel
23 Manifold StGreat pub food in family friendly, country relaxing ambience.
Bohemia Cafe & Bar
127 Kepler StGreat food and service every time.
Surf Beach
The Flume Beach
Granny's Grave Beach
The Passage carpark
Ocean DriveFishing Spots
Great local fishing spots at the ocean Warrnambool Breakwater, Hopkins River Bridge and Boat House; Merri River Dennington Jetty; Merrivale Jetty; South Warrnambool Bridge and Killarney beach to name a few!
Breakwater Rock Pier
61 Viaduct RdEssentials
Woolworths
3 minutes drive.
Chemist, Bakery, Coffee Shop and Petrol also at site.
Entertainment
Lighthouse Theatre Warrnambool
185 Timor StHotel Warrnambool
Kepler StreetSunday's live band
Seanchai
62 Liebig StThe Cally
112-114 Fairy St