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PORT CAMPBELL is a small and companionable settlement on the edge of the Port Campbell National Park. The Port Campbell Information Centre on Morris Street (daily 9am-5pm; tel 03/5598 6089 or 1300/137 255) has displays and information about the area and its national parks, and can also book accommodation. Ask here too about the self-guided Port Campbell Discovery Walk (90min), which will take you along a clifftop to a viewpoint above Two Mile Bay.

Port Campbell beach is a small sandy curve, safe for swimming and patrolled in season. The town climbs the hill behind the beach. At 27 Lord St, the Port Campbell Trading Company is a small art gallery displaying works by local artists and craftspeople. Opposite, the Loch Ard Shipwreck Museum (daily 9am-5pm; $4) has exhibits and videos relating the stories of five of the South West Coast shipping disasters (the Loch Ard, Fiji, Schomberg, Falls of Halladale and Newfield ), as well as artefacts salvaged from some of the wrecks. If you're really fascinated by the wrecks, Port Campbell Boat Charters (tel 0500/566 588) offers diving to some wreck sites and can hire out snorkelling or diving gear to those who want to go it alone.