If you decided to visit Mornington Peninsula in Australia with your kids, you have made an excellent choice. Famous for its breathtaking beaches and easy going lifestyle, this destination offers many attractions and family-friendly activities, from hiking and relaxing on the beach to getting up close to wildlife and many more. Just 90 minutes from Melbourne, this beautiful peninsula in Victoria is also considered one of the most popular sites both for Melbourne’s families and tourists visiting the city. Regardless of what type of trip you have decided on: a day, weekend, or something longer, you should make the most of it. This article presents several reasons you should visit Mornington Peninsula with your children this year.
Peninsula Hot Springs
The amazing Peninsula Hot Springs are one of the most popular spots on the Mornington Peninsula. They are inspired by hot springs from all across the world and by various bathing cultures. Hidden in forests along the coasts in Fingal, this place offers a vast range of wellness or day spa options. You can relax and enjoy the benefits of the minerals and natural waters from the hot springs 639 meters under the ground. We recommend you visit the Bath House with your kids. This attractive place has barrel pools for children, toddlers, and even babies. The Bath House also has family change rooms and a café serving daily drinks and meals.
Arthurs Seat Eagle
Enjoy an exciting ride in the chairlift inside an enclosed eight-person gondola that climbs up to Arthurs Seat. Placed at the base of Dromana, a seaside Melbourne suburb on the Mornington Peninsula, it is one of the newest and most appealing things to do during your vacation. Visitors can admire the region’s gorgeous coastline from an entirely new angle. When you find your accommodation in Dromana, the journey from the bus station to Arthurs Seat Eagle takes approximately fifteen minutes. When the weather is clear, you can see everything from the blurry skyline of Melbourne to the Bellarine Peninsula to the west. The calming journey offers you the pleasure of listening to birdsong and admiring the vistas floating under your feet. Before you descend, have a coffee or a bite to eat at the Eagle Café, walk around various tracks up to the top, or sit at the lookout and enjoy the panoramic views of the landmarks.
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Enchanted Adventure Garden
Your adventure on the Mornington Peninsula should include the marvellous Enchanted Adventure Garden. Located fifteen minutes on foot from Arthurs Seat Summit, it is also one of the most popular Peninsula attractions for families who love adventure. Enchanted Adventure Garden is an award-winning outdoor fun park where your kids can enjoy incredible mazes, outdoor tree-top climbing, swinging off the huge Tarzan swing, tube sliding, zipping from tree to tree on high ropes, and other exotic activities. The bravest ones can go surfing which implies various physical and elevation challenges. Suppose all of that is too adventurous for the family. In that case, you can just sit and admire stunning gardens, eat at the café, or wander through the gardens discovering interesting sculptures. In any case, visiting the Enchanted Adventure Garden is a unique and unforgettable experience that your kids will remember forever.
Moonlit Sanctuary Park
At Moonlit Sanctuary Park, you have an opportunity to get close to some of the Aussie wildlife. Here, you can meet more than seventy Australian species, such as wallabies and kangaroos, dingoes, koalas, pythons, and many other animals. Most of them freely wander around the property. In addition, you can book hands-on encounters with pythons and koalas or take a walk with a dingo around the park. At Moonlit Sanctuary, you can also have a picnic or visit a local café with various meal options.
Take a long coastal walk
The Two Bays walking track from Anthony’s Nose to Cape Schanck lighthouse is 26 kilometres long. This offers you a unique opportunity to take a long coastal walk with your family and breathe in the fresh air, some of the cleanest in Victoria. We recommend you pause and enjoy breathtaking lookouts on the well-maintained walking tracks. If you opt for a shorter, vigorous walk with kids in Point Nepean National Park, leave your car at Gunners Cottage. Then, walk to the ruins at Fort Nepean, famous for the historical fact that the first Australian shots in the First and Second World Wars were fired from there.
Of course, there are more than five excellent reasons to visit Mornington Peninsula this year. We have mentioned some of them, but the fact is that you and your kids can enjoy plenty of exciting and attractive things on this beautiful peninsula. So if you visit it this year with your family, you can’t go wrong – it will be an unforgettable vacation.
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