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The bucket-list things to do — and the private, expert-led way to do each.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, and the private, small-group, or expert-led way to make it yours — your own pace, real access, none of the crowd.
Ride one of the world's great coastal drives in a private vehicle, arriving at the 12 Apostles at golden hour when the limestone stacks glow amber above the Southern Ocean. This is the definitive Victorian bucket-list day.
Watch hundreds of Little Penguins waddle ashore at dusk on Phillip Island — one of Australia's most extraordinary wildlife spectacles — then encounter koalas and wallabies in the wild on the same day.
Victoria's premier cool-climate wine region unfolds just 60 minutes from the dock — Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and sparkling Blanc de Blancs poured against a backdrop of rolling vine-covered hills and misty mountain ranges.
Step inside the Melbourne Cricket Ground — the spiritual home of Australian sport and one of the world's greatest stadiums — for an expert-led behind-the-scenes tour of spaces that are closed on match days.
Duck into the graffiti-splashed secret laneways that made Melbourne famous, sampling world-class espresso, hawker-style dumplings, and craft chocolate with a local foodie guide who knows every hidden door.
Ride to Level 88 of the Eureka Tower and step onto The Edge — a glass cube that cantilevers you 300 metres above Melbourne's glittering skyline — for a perspective on the city that simply cannot be replicated at street level.
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