The Bellarine not only offers beautiful scenery and the best of food, wine and produce, it boasts a whole calendar of events from small community markets, festivals and fairs to some of the greater Geelong region’s biggest events like the National Celtic Festival held in Portarlington every Queen’s Birthday weekend.
The Barwon Heads Festival of the Sea is one of the best community events in the greater Geelong region. The festival brings together a huge array of family fun with the highlight being the duck race.
The Bellarine Peninsula is perfect for the market lover with a variety of markets held almost every weekends; providing all sorts of goods from fresh produce to crafts and treasure.
Held on the Portarlington Recreation Reserve, the Bellarine Show is one of the most popular and best events on the Bellarine Peninsula’s event calendar.
The Portarlington Mussel Festival has been running since 2007 and celebrates the town’s link with the bay and the tasty morsel; the mussel.
The Queenscliff Music Festival is held in November every year and always has a huge and amazing line up of great musical artists from both Australia and around the world.
The Queenscliff Rod Run is an annual event where the Geelong Street Rodders and classic car owners from all over Australia polish up their pride and joy and head to the beautiful Victorian township of Queenscliff.
Every June Portarlington on the Bellarine Peninsula plays host to the National Celtic Festival, with music, dance and plenty of Celtic culture.
The Geelong and Bellarine region has built a reputation over the past few decades as a producer of quality wines, The Toast to the Coast festival is held across various wineries from all around the Bellarine Peninsula and beyond.
The Wallington Strawberry Fair is the longest running event of its type on the Bellarine Peninsula and is held in the grounds of the Wallington Primary School.
