- Port Fairy Day Spa offers a comprehensive range of spa, beauty and therapeutic treatments designed to re-balance and de-stress your mind and body. We have $10 vouchers in reception which you can use for any treatment. They have a great reputation.
- There is the delightful Fiddler’s Green (Cnr Bank Street and Sackville Street) which is a great spot to take a break, read a paper or have a chat. The information centre is opposite and a friendly source of help to all.
- A 5-minute stroll down Bank Street from the Green and a right hand turn takes you down toward the jetty, slipping down a laneway and small set of stairs you are now standing on the wharf of the Moyne River. Yachts mix freely with shipping vessels and leisure boats; you can fish (it’s a great fishing precinct on both sides of the wharf) or pause at your leisure as you move along the jetty of some 1000m. In the 1830’s this port was the second (to Sydney) largest port in Australia when whaling was at its peak.
- This jetty slowly transforms into a slipstream taking the boats to open water. You can walk along the pier towards the entrance to Griffiths Island and the Lighthouse (40 min return walk). The island, once home to a whaling station and the lighthouse keeper’s cottage is home to lots of wildlife and many sea birds, in particular the Shearwaters (mutton birds) who migrate here in September from the Baltic States to have their young and return in February/March. The walk is full of signs that explain the history and wildlife. The extended loop route is about 45 minutes.
- From the entrance of the pier it is a 25-minute stroll back to the park where you can relax in our Shearwater room, sharing a meal and conversation, watching a movie or even playing bingo or charades.
