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Pro
Historic, pretty
Con
a little off the beaten track and forgotten
In a nutshell
Worth a visit no doubt
Port Fairy Folk Festival - variety of music
HarShe Says: Port Fairy Folk Festival - Key Facts Held in March each yearA major Australian International Music Festival Regarded as one of the worlds Top 5 Folk Music Festivals Established 1977. Winner Australia Tourism Awards 1993, 1994 and 1995 Inducted Australian Tourism Hall Of Fame...
nat22 Says: We went to visit the glass blowing studio. They had just started a new blowing session, apparently they blow glass for a few weeks at a time and then lampwork beads for a while. It is a small studio so it was easy to chat the the blowers as they worked. Facinating art to...
nat22 Says: Following the Art Walk Map available from the Port Fairy Tourist office, we came across Whale Bone Gallery. We were particularily impressed with this gallery as it is a co-operative run by 6 local artists. We had a long chat with the lovely lady working there who turns out...
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Port Pizza: Not the best Pizza
cjg1 Says: My wife and I were staying in Port Fairy for the night during our Great Ocean Road Adventure. It was dinnertime and we were both very hungry. We came upon Port Pizza during our walk through town and decided to try it out. The inside is pretty basic with a large posted menu...
Cobb's Bakery: Incredible Apple Streudel
cjg1 Says: My wife and I were exploring the town of Port Fairy when we discovered Cobb's Bakery. It was hours until dinner time and we wanted something sweet to tide us over until our evening meal. The Bakery has several large display cases filled with an array of sweet and savory...
Wisharts: Don't miss the Fish Pie
Becbartel Says: We checked wisharts out on a lovely walk along the wharf. We booked in for dinner after having looked at a few places around the town that were a lot more expensive and we got a seat by the window and the fire. We had a fantastic meal of entrees and mains and a bottle of...
Rebecca's Cafe: Not what I was expecting
Becbartel Says: I was looking forward to eating here as I'd read a lot about it, all good. I had the eggs and beans and was very disappointed. Both had no flavour at all and I had to cover it in salt to give some flavour, something I haven't had to do in years. My husband had the mushroom...
Ramella: Friendly, homely and convenient
HarShe Says: Very friendly owners, will go out of the way to please you. The Chef/owner was happy to open his kitchen for us when we reached late for lunch and their kitchen had closed for cleaning.
The Victoria Hotel: Open Plan, airy, lots of light
leffe3 Says: We tried 'Portofino', regarded as the best restaurant along this part of the coast (and the menu looked scrummy) but fully booked. Port Fairy is certainly not short of restaurants, so we were spoilt for choice but which one? Two hungry kids helped us make the decision - a...
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My wife and I made arrangements to rent a car through Europcar for our drive on the Great Ocean Road. We arrived at the train station in Melbourne and headed off to the car rental office. Our car was at an off site location (weird) so we hopped into a car with the clerk to another Europcar location to pick up our car.
Our car was a basic economy car, four door, Hyundai. I paid extra($20) for a GPS unit as we were unfamiliar with our route. Our car was clean and safe; we had no problems at all with the service or the GPS during our trip.
Written Feb 6, 2013
??? in the main street on the same side as 3 cafes: Homewares
Kate-Me Says: This is the other window of the shop with the Ned Kelly, and it struck me as being a bit Provencale, with the blue and white crockery, and lavender on display, as well as the other items.
??? in the main street on the same side as 3 cafes: Homewares, gifts, unusual items
Kate-Me Says: As I wandered down the main street of Port Fairy, I noticed a rather more wide selection of shopping options than I was expecting in a small town....the 5 cafes and 2 bakeries were expected, but there were also at least 3 book shops, almost all in a row. Pictured here is a...
Port Fairy - Take Your Own Drinking Water!
thomidog Says: I stayed at Secombe House in Port Fairy at the beginning of October 2010. There were no drinking glasses provided in our budget room so I went searching and found some in the lounge area. I got some water from the tap in the bathroom, took a mouthful and instantly wished I...
ATXtraveler Says: Don't get Fung Shui'ed out of your chair.... we had no IKEA that they would design something like this. Who ever thought it would be stylish to design a chair with only three legs, and make the back side the single leg, was obviously not considering normal human...
I had read the crayfish season was from November to August, so going in July we thought we'd be fine, but the seasons have been changed recently and they are only in season for 6-8 weeks at a time. Best to contact the tourist info centre to find out if they are in season when you are planning your trip.
Unique Suggestions: Everything about Port fairy was fantastic, we loved Wisharts for dinner - best fish pie I've ever tasted, and loved the laid back nature of the locals. We didn't see the whales on our trip but there are lots of places to view them and lots of people will let you know if they are around.
Written Jul 10, 2007
iandsmith Says: Here you can catch a koala..........well, no, maybe pat a koala........, actually you can't do that either and it isn't recommended as their bone structure is weak and cuddling a koala might seem nice but, take my advice, leave them where they are and just watch, as I do on...
Kate-Me Says: Between Warrnambool and Port Fairy lies the tiny town of Killarney. I was attracted to it because of its Irish name. It's a very small place to be even called a town, with a pub, hotel, a couple of guest houses...but it does have its own beach down the road, which seems...
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At first glance, when we pulled up at the waterfront a few hundred metres out of Port Fairy, it didn't look like a spot for surfers, with all those rocks on the shore and out at least a little way as well...but there they were, about 16 of them, and we soon saw why:
the waves were much bigger than at Warrnambool, and came in on a diagonal angle, rather than straight, and some of those surfers were really getting a good run!
We spent quite some time enjoying watching them from the comfort of our car (as it was rather windy, as this coast can get).
Written Apr 22, 2004
Dairy farmland around Port Fairy region
Kate-Me Says: Drought in Victoria being so serious at the moment, seeing this lush countryside around Port Fairy and Warrnambool was a welcome respite from short, dry grass only 2 1/2 hours away at home. This is prime dairy farming country. They also have water shortages, but obviously at...
Kate-Me Says: One of the things I enjoyed best about our brief stop in Port Fairy was watching the surfers at the rocky beach ride the diagonal waves, and quite successfully too, compared to the last lot of surfers we'd watched the day before at Warrnambool.
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Port Fairy is one of those delightful towns where you feel as though if you stay another day you suddenly might find a whole extra world of things to see and do. There are museums, historic walks,...
Port Fairy - at the end of the Great Ocean Road
Port Fairy is a small seaside town (these days they're calling it a 'seaside village) at the end of the Great Ocean Road, about 30 kms west of its much larger cousin, the city of Warrnambool. I'd...
Port Fairy - The End of a "Great" Ocean Road
Our time in Port Fairy was very short. We had driven through Warrnambool unable to find a good spot to drop in and grab a bite of dinner, and our accommodation was 200kms away through the mountains....
Driving up The Great Ocean Road from Melbourne to Adelaide, on our way to the Barossa valley is a long but beautiful drive. A nice place to stop in between is Port Fairy, a cute, artsy, very friendly...
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