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Where: |
Anglesea
Only 1.5 hours driving from Melbourne, past Geelong. |
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Last Visited: |
Anglesea is Rob's summertime holiday location, that his family visited every summer throughout his childhood. Nowadays we enjoy weekends there in both summer and wintertime. |
Why Go: |
Anglesea has a surf beach and is great summer holiday location for families. |
Highlights: |
- Town: Gorgeous small seaside town
- Shopping: shopping village with everything you will ever need
- Beach: Good surf beach break
- Golf Course: the golf course is well known for the large herds of kangaroos that take over the fairways. You can visit just to see the roos, or even play a game on the class course.
- Art gallery: Malaleuca Galley on the main road is worth a browse if you are passing during it's limited opening hours.
- Walking: there are great tracks along the river and in the nearby Anglehook Park, or you could walk along the beaches at low tide to Pt Addis or Pt Roadnight.
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Lowlights: |
- in wintertime much of the place closes down and it gets pretty cold.
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Accommodation: |
- Holiday rentals are available, see local Real Estate Agents
- The popular caravan park caters for tents and caravans and is close to the beach
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Eating & Drinking: |
- Anglesea pub serves good counter meals and the bottle shop is the place to buy your alcohol.
- There is a well stocked supermarket in the main shopping area
- There are plenty of takeaway food joints (Pizza, Fish & Chips, Chinese)
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Other things you should know about: |
- Bells beach, home of an world famous surf competition is close by
- Up and down the coast are the towns of Torquay and Lorne.
- Anglesea is very close to the official start of the Great Ocean Road.
- Anglesea (38° 25’ S, 144° 11’ E) is named after Anglesey, an island in NW Wales, with a modified
spelling. It was previously called Swampy Creek.
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