Restaurant Cape Schanck
Barragunda Dining
165 Boneo Rd, Cape Schanck VIC 3939 · $$$$
Chef Simone Watts's farm dining room on a 1000-acre regenerative estate at Cape Schanck, one of the Peninsula's most compelling new voices.
Moonah Links
Moonah Links is the Peninsula's most complete golf property — two championship courses (Open and Legends), on-site accommodation, and the integrated infrastructure a small group needs. The Open Course hosted the Australian Open in 2003 and 2005; the Legends Course is the more forgiving sibling, better for mixed groups. Both are firm, links-style, and exposed to Bass Strait weather. The resort angle matters here. Unlike St Andrews Beach (which is just a course), Moonah Links lets you stay on property, play twice in 24 hours, eat without getting back in the car, and treat the weekend as a destination in itself. Book the Open Course if you are a serious golfer; book the Legends if the group is mixed. Package deals with accommodation are often the best value. Midweek pricing is significantly better than weekends. Non-golfers have less to do on-property than at St Andrews Beach — the surrounding area is quiet. Plan for drives if anyone in the group isn't playing.
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Villa Cape Schanck
The Cape Retreat
Cape Schanck VIC 3939 · $$$$
Twelve luxury suites on a Cape Schanck hilltop with Bass Strait views, primarily exclusive-hire, individual suites may be available on enquiry.
Spa Cape Schanck
One Spa at RACV Cape Schanck Resort
Trent Jones Dr, Cape Schanck VIC 3939 · $$$
The Peninsula's best resort-style day spa, proper scale, serious treatment menu, and a cliff-edge location that nobody else on the Peninsula can match.
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Ashcombe Maze & Lavender Gardens
Ashcombe Maze holds Australia's oldest symmetrical hedge maze, a circular rose garden, a lavender labyrinth, and a small café that sells lavender everything, ice cream, scones, shortbread, tisane, from a room that smells exactly like the fields outside. The gardens are at their peak in spring when the lavender is up, but the maze works in any season and the café is reason enough in autumn. The place is deliberately low-tempo. You walk the maze, you sit in the lavender, you drink tea, and you leave feeling like you have stumbled into a slightly older, gentler version of the Peninsula. It is a good rainy-afternoon reset and an even better spring morning plan. Pair it with Flinders Sourdough on the way through or Flinders General Store afterwards. Bring the kids. Bring older visitors. Do not try to be cynical about it, the charm wins.
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Bushrangers Bay
Bushrangers Bay is a hidden ocean beach accessed via a 2.5-kilometre walk through coastal heathland from Cape Schanck - and, remarkably, almost nobody goes here even in summer. In April it is completely deserted. Dramatic rock formations, sea caves along the cliffs, and the raw power of the Southern Ocean breaking against the headlands at the far end of the beach. The walk in from Cape Schanck is straightforward and well-marked, descending gradually through the heath to the back of the beach. Once you arrive, the scale of the place - cliffs, caves, ocean, almost no human presence - is the reason to come. Walk the sand, look at the rock formations, turn around. One of the Peninsula's genuinely remote-feeling experiences, hiding in plain sight. Bring water; there are no facilities at the beach itself.
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Bushrangers Bay Walk
Bushrangers Bay is the walk we send people to when they say they want to see the wilder side of the Peninsula without committing to a full-day hike. The track drops from the Cape Schanck lighthouse precinct through coastal scrub and opens onto a broad crescent of basalt and sand that feels much further from Melbourne than it is. The return climb is enough to justify lunch afterwards, but not so punishing that it tips into chore. Do it in the late afternoon when the light starts to flatten across the water and the whole coastline turns silver.
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Cape Schanck — The Complete Guide
22 April 2026
The 1859 limestone lighthouse, the boardwalk to Pulpit Rock and Pebble Beach, and the 5.4km return walk to Bushrangers Bay. Cape Schanck lighthouse grounds are free from 6am — lighthouse tours are ticketed. Here is everything.
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Mornington Peninsula Stay and Play Golf — Where to Stay Near Every Course
14 April 2026
The accommodation that makes each Peninsula golf course walkable, driveable, or otherwise properly paired. Ten courses, stay recommendations for each, and the package combinations that actually work.