This one’s a vintage, thoroughly-Aussie summertime holiday spot: a lovely and mostly quiet little town on Victoria’s southwest coast, reached on the Great Ocean Road, west from Melbourne, with some great surf breaks – think Bells Beach near Torquay – and uninterrupted ocean panoramas all the way. In town, you can pop into one of the seafood joints to feast on prawns, scallops and butterfish, and wash it down with a late-harvest Riesling or fruity Chardonnay from the nearby Henty wine region. And if you walk down to the waterfront, you’ll see fishing boats anchored in the bay, crayfish pots stacked on the piers, and a golden-sand beach fanning out right before you, where you can splash, surf, and even catch a horseback ride along the water's edge. And yeah, from Marriner’s Lookout directly above town you'll have sweeping, granddaddy views of the town below, arching along a crescent-shaped coastal curve, and all the way out to sea. Sweet.