The questions travellers ask before they book, each answered in full: how to visit, what you see from each viewing area, what surprises people about the colony, how the evening works with children, and how the parade compares with the free colony in Melbourne.
The whole evening, start to finish: what time the birds actually come in, which viewing area puts you where, how you get there when no bus does, and what a coach day from Melbourne adds for the money.
The tiered stands, the Penguins Plus platform, the Underground window and the ranger-guided beach, compared on what each one actually puts in front of you.
Seven hundred and seventy-four houses bought back, a dive of seventy-two metres, and a camera ban that is about eyesight rather than copyright.
A January crossing starts at 8:45pm and the drive home takes two hours. Here is how families make that work, and which tours get you back earliest.
One colony is free and twenty minutes from the Melbourne CBD. The other is two hours away and ticketed. They are not the same evening, and only one of them is a day out.
The posts above each answer one question. The planning guides take a whole topic at a time — choosing between the tour formats, building a day around the crossing, doing it without a tour, the viewing tiers in detail, and the penguin year month by month.
To go straight to the products, Phillip Island Nature Park tours are listed on Phillip Island Penguin Parade Tours with what each fare covers.
