Honeysuckles AstronomyTours

The beach here runs uninterrupted for close to a hundred miles, and with almost no settlement along it there's very little light to compete with the sky. Bruce Renowden runs small private groups — capped at four people — through an observatory-grade telescope trained on galaxies, nebulae and star-forming regions, with moon-specific nights available for anyone wanting the detail of lunar craters rather than deep space. Evening tours are bookable on their own, or paired with a night in the beachside cottage, breakfast included, for visitors wanting to make a full stop of it rather than a quick look through a lens. The scale is deliberately small: this isn't a coach-tour operation, it's one guide, one serious telescope, and a handful of guests at a time on one of the state's darkest accessible coastlines. Worth building an evening around for anyone staying along the Ninety Mile Beach or passing through Gippsland.