Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
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Free
Warrnambool Library
(25 Liebig St;
9.30am-5pm Mon & Tue, to 6pm Wed-Fri, 10am-noon Sat;
internet and wi-fi access.
Warrnambool Visitors Centre
( 1800 637 725;
www.visitwarrnambool.com.au
;
Merri St; 9am-5pm)
Has
the latest on whale sightings, as well as bike maps, several walking maps, and bicycle hire
($30 per day).
Getting There & Away
Warrnambool is an hour's drive west of Port Campbell on the B100.
BUS
Three buses a week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) travel from Geelong along the
Great Ocean Road to Warrnambool ($32.20, 6½ hours).
Fairy ($4.20, 35 minutes), with V/Line continuing on to Portland ($11, 1½ hours).
Christians Bus Co
( 03-5562 9432;
www.christiansbus.com.au
)
also runs services on Tuesday, Fri-
day and Sunday to Port Fairy ($4, departing 7.45am), continuing to Halls Gap ($25, 3¼
hours) and Ararat ($29.20, four hours).
TRAIN
V/Line
( 1800 800 007;
www.vline.com.au
;
Merri St) trains run to Melbourne ($31, 3¼ hours, three or four daily) via Geelong
($22.20, 2½ hours).
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Tower Hill Reserve
Tower Hill, 15km west of Warrnambool, is a vast caldera born in a volcanic eruption
35,000 years ago. Aboriginal artefacts unearthed in the volcanic ash show that Indigenous
people lived in the area at the time and, today, the Worn Gundidj Aboriginal Cooperative
operates the
Tower Hill Natural History Centre
( 03-5565 9202;
www.worngundidj.org.au
; walks adult/child
$18.95/8.80; 9am-5pm Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm Sat, Sun & public holidays)
. The centre is housed within
the UFO-like building designed by renowned Australian architect Robin Boyd in 1962.
Bush walks led by indigenous guides depart daily at 11am and include boomerang-throw-
