Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park:

The park is an internationally recognized dive site, offering excellent diving and snorkeling opportunities for varying levels of experience.

Divers and snorkelers have a wide choice of exciting destinations within the six sectors of the Marine National Park:

Swan Bay, Mud Islands, Point Lonsdale, Point Nepean, Popes Eye, Portsea Hole.

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Diving Conditions :

The dive site offers protection from tidal currents, allowing this site to be suitable for all levels of diving.

In the entrance of Port Phillip - known as "The Rip", appropriately qualified divers can experience spectacular wall diving and challenging drift dives, with outstanding invertebrate life revealing the colour and diversity seen on tropical coral reefs.

Swan Bay and the surrounds of Mud Islands, and the intertidal reefs at Point Lonsdale and Point Nepean, allow beginner and experienced snorkelers to experience Victoria`s underwater life in relative ease. 

 

Marine Habitat:

The habitats found within this park are diverse, ranging from mudflats and seagrass meadows to deep and shallow reefs, rocky shores and beautiful pelagic waters. The variety of habitats, along with the central Victorian location, results in the presence of a great abundance of marine species.

The area marks the end of the range for some animals and plants that prefer the cold waters of western Victoria, but it also supports warmth-loving species from eastern Australia that can survive in the bay's relatively calm, shallow waters.

A high proportion of Victorian species of marine flora and fauna are represented in the Port Phillip Head's region.

 

Access:

Swan Bay and Point Lonsdale are accessible by either shore or boat, whereas Portsea Hole, Point Nepean, Pope’s Eye and Mud Islands are only accessible by boat. Queenscliff, Swan Bay and Portsea all have launching points.

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