The city calls itself Australia's 'sporting and cultural capital' and it is home to many of the nation's most significant cultural and sporting events and institutions.

The city celebrates a wide variety of annual cultural events, performing arts and architecture. Melbourne is also considered to be Australia's live music capital with a large proportion of successful Australian artists emerging from the Melbourne live music scene. Street Art in Melbourne is becoming increasingly popular with the Lonely Planet guides listing it as a major attraction. The city is also admired as one of the great cities of the Victorian Age (1837-1901) and a vigorous city life intersects with an impressive range of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century buildings.

Melbourne is a notable sporting location as the host city for the 1956 Summer Olympics games,along with the 2006 Commonwealth Games. In recent years, the city has claimed the SportsBusiness title "World's Ultimate Sports City" and is home to the National Sports Museum, which until 2006 was located outside the members pavilion at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and reopened in 2008 in the Great Northern Stand. Melbourne is also home to the three major annual international annual sporting events in the Australian Open (tennis), Melbourne Cup (horse racing),and the Australian Grand Prix (Formula 1).

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Swim with the Dolphins

Witnessing dolphins and seals playing in their natural environment is so often a life-enhancing experience. And you don’t have to travel far! You can make friends with these intelligent mammals just a short distance from Melbourne, at the picturesque seaside village of Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula.

Your adventure begins with a safety briefing on board the boat, followed by the journey out to the on the beautiful southern waters of Port Phillip Bay. Swim with wild bottlenose dolphins, explore reefs with sea dragons, and view marine life and frolic with playful fur seals. Highly trained and experienced crew introduces you to snorkeling with an emphasis on safety and environmental awareness.

Open water experiences abound. This truly is the marine adventure of a lifetime.