Melbourne day tours for popular Victoria trips

Wildlife and coastline on Phillip Island, finishing at dusk as little penguins come ashore at Summerland Beach.

• Penguin Parade at Summerland Beach after sunset
• The Nobbies boardwalk above Seal Rocks
• Koala Conservation Reserve treetop walkways

Cellar doors, produce stops and Australian wildlife an hour from Melbourne in the Yarra Valley wine region.

• Cellar doors around Yarra Glen and Coldstream
• Healesville Sanctuary's Australian wildlife
• Valley lookouts over the vine rows

A heritage steam train through mountain ash and tree ferns, plus fern gullies and gardens in the Dandenong Ranges.

• Puffing Billy heritage steam railway
• Sherbrooke Forest fern gullies and mountain ash
• Alfred Nicholas Memorial Gardens

Victoria's gold rush city, from the diggings at Sovereign Hill to the Eureka story and Ballarat's wide Victorian streets.

• Sovereign Hill's recreated 1850s goldfields township
• The Eureka Stockade story at the Eureka Centre
• Ballarat's Victorian streetscapes along Sturt Street

Bay beaches, clifftop lighthouse walks and back-beach surf on the Mornington Peninsula, an hour south of Melbourne.

• Cape Schanck lighthouse and its clifftop boardwalk
• Sorrento and Portsea on the bay
• Arthurs Seat views across Port Phillip

Granite headlands, squeaking quartz sand and wombat country at the southernmost tip of mainland Australia.

• Squeaky Beach and its quartz sand
• Tidal River and the Prom's granite coastline
• Mount Oberon views over the peninsula

Sandstone ranges, valley lookouts and Halls Gap in Gariwerd, one of Victoria's great mountain landscapes.

• Clifftop lookouts over the Victoria Valley
• Halls Gap, the town at the centre of the ranges
• Sandstone escarpments and lookout walks

Mineral springs, lake walks and antique-shop streets through Daylesford and Hepburn Springs spa country.

• Hepburn Springs mineral springs reserve
• Lake Daylesford's shoreline walk
• Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens