Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
VICTORIAN RAIL TRAILS
Victoria's rail trails are a great way to see parts of regional Victoria by bike, and more trails are being developed as
funding becomes available. Some of the best:
TRAIL
START/FINISH
LENGTH
Murray to Mountains
Wangaratta/Bright
116km
East Gippsland
Bairnsdale/Orbost
94km
Great Southern
Leongatha/Foster
58km
High Country
Wodonga/Old Tallangatta
37km
Lilydale-Warburton
Lilydale/Warburton
40km
Bellarine Peninsula
Geelong/Queenscliff
32.5km
Bass Coast
Anderson/Wonthaggi
16km
O'Keefe
Bendigo/Axedale
23km
Gippsland Lakes
Colquhoun/Lakes Entrance
17km
Camperdown-Timboon
Camperdown/Timboon
40km
Ballarat-Skipton
Ballarat/Skipton
56km
Port Fairy-Warrnambool
Port Fairy/Warrnambool
37km
Boat
The only scheduled boat services are the regular daily
Queenscliff-Sorrento Car & Passenger Ferries
( 03-5258
3244;
www.searoad.com.au
; adult/child/car return from $20/16/112) between Queenscliff and Sorrento, and the
Inter
Island Ferries
( 03-9585 5730;
www.interislandferries.com.au
; adult/child/bike return $24/12/8) from Stony Point
on the Mornington Peninsula to French Island and Phillip Island.
Charter boats and cruises can get you around on the water in the Gippsland Lakes and Murray region.
Bus
Victoria's regional bus network
V/Line
( 13 61 96;
www.vline.com.au
)
offers both a relatively cheap and reliable
service, though it can require planning if you intend to do more than straightforward city-to-city trips. The buses basic-
ally supplement the train services, so you'll often find yourself on a train and bus combination, changing services en
route. For getting between smaller country towns, a bus may well be the only public-transport option and it may not
even run daily. In some regions, private transport companies run bus services that often connect with V/Line trains and
buses.
