Changelog

Port Fairy has no train and no secondary school, so the Route 8 bus is how a lot of people get to the high school, the base hospital and the shops. The tool shows the whole published timetable both ways, worked against the clock, plus the fares and the traps: on a weekday the last bus out leaves at 15:05 and the last bus home leaves Warrnambool at 18:00, and on Saturday and Sunday the last bus home leaves before the last bus out even gets there. Times and fares come from the Victorian Government's own published data, checked on 1 August 2026.

Port Fairy's page now opens with a colored-pencil sketch of the Moyne River wharf — cray and abalone boats moored at the jetty, the estuary opening toward the Southern Ocean.

Straightforward answers to what people ask most — where to swim since the pool closed, getting to Warrnambool without a car, the Folk Festival crush, what stays open in winter, flooding, the East Beach tip and bin days — each pointing to the tool or service that goes deeper.

When the short-tailed shearwaters are on the island, month by month, the dusk fly-in to watch for, and how to walk the colony without harming the burrows.

Since Belfast Aquatics closed, this shows the nearest year-round pool (AquaZone in Warrnambool), the town's own summer beaches, how to get there, and what the council is planning for a local replacement.

The live height of the Moyne River at the Toolong gauge upstream of town, with its recent range and trend — the reading the local flood guide watches. Data from the Bureau of Meteorology; official flood warnings linked. It's not a flood warning, just the river's level.

The council, health (Moyne Health, the GP clinic, NURSE-ON-CALL and the Warrnambool emergency department), the emergency and flood-and-storm numbers, and how to get to Warrnambool — grouped, with tappable numbers, each checked against the service's own website.

Wave, swell and wind off the Moyne River mouth, updated through the day, for the fishing fleet and anyone taking a small boat out through the bar. It says plainly that the bar is far more dangerous than the open sea and shifts with the sand.

The markets, festivals and music coming up around town, gathered in one place with the source for each. Dated events drop off once they've passed.

Port Fairy now has its own page, starting with a what's-on board for markets, festivals and music.