This is a very popular area for birding, hiking, and walking, so you'll likely encounter other people while exploring. The trails are open year-round and is beautiful to visit anytime. Please ensure you bring all of your water along as there is no potable water available on the trail.

Point Addis Marine National Park is 4420 hectares in size, making it the third largest of the Victoria’s Marine National Parks. The park is notable for being part of a high wave-energy shoreline on the edge of Bass Strait and often has great conditions for surfing with strong south-westerly swells generated in the Southern Ocean.

The park’s marine habitats include large areas of soft sediment interspersed by rocky reefs and these support a high diversity of
algal, invertebrate, and fish species. An unusual offshore habitat in the park are rhodolith beds comprising colourful, unattached calcareous nodules of significant age made by a coralline red algae, and that were the first discovered in Victoria as part of mapping surveys undertaken in Point Addis Marine National Park..
Many sea birds and mammals of conservation significance, including Blue Whales, Southern Right Whales, Killer Whales, and Australian Fur Seals, have been recorded in this park while 26 conservation listed shore and sea birds have been sighted in Point Addis Marine National Park.

Point Addis and Bells Beach

Point Addis Marine National Park hosts two historic shipwrecks, including ‘The Inverlochy’ a steel sailing boat which was beached at Insgolby reef in 1902. The park is a popular place for coastal walks.

Bells Beach is a coastal locality of Victoria, in Surf Coast Shire and a renowned surf beach, located 100 km south-west of Melbourne, on the Great Ocean Road near the towns of Torquay and Jan Juc.

It is named after William Bell, a Master Mariner, who owned much of the property there from the 1840s. Bells Beach is the home of the world's longest continuously running pro surfing competition – now known as the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach which has been hosted yearly since 1961.