Address & Contact
2-18 Trafalgar Street
Apollo Bay VIC 3233
Phone: +613 5232 9400
Email: inq@colacotway.vic.gov.au
Web: https://www.colacotway.vic.gov.au/Home
The town takes its name from the schooner "Apollo" which, during a storm in 1846, sheltered in the bay on the way from Port Phillip to
Portland. A few years after that event, timber cutters began taking timber from Apollo Bay and
Lorne, and by 1853 the coast had been surveyed in detail and there were several timber camps.
Today Apollo Bay is a substantial coastal township and holiday resort on the Great Ocean Road, western Victoria, between
Lorne and
Cape Otway. Behind Apollo Bay there are the Otway Ranges, partly forested and partly cleared for grazing and dairying.