Tyabb

Tyabb is a small town on the Mornington Peninsula's northern Western Port flank, 65 km from Melbourne, anchored by the Tyabb Packing House antiques district and the Tyabb Air Show held at the grass airfield each autumn.

Tyabb is the Peninsula's antique town and, twice a year, its airshow town, and for the rest of the calendar it is a small Western-Port-adjacent farming village most visitors drive past on the way to somewhere else. The antiques district is unusual - a long shed-filled lane known as Tyabb Packing House, half barn, half market, full of dealers who have been there for thirty years and know exactly what they have. The Old Tyabb airfield, a working grass strip on the edge of town, hosts the Tyabb Air Show each March and is home to one of Australia's best-known warbird collections. Beyond those two anchors, Tyabb is residential and rural - horse paddocks, a small main street, a bakery worth pulling over for. Come for an antique-hunting day with the airshow if the timing aligns; otherwise pair Tyabb with Hastings as a Western Port-side day.