see also:

• heat injury, burns, heat rashes and heat illness
• how to reduce your chance of drowning on your camping trip
• staying cool while camping in summer
• summer holiday beach camping in Victoria
• photography and camping main index page

• a nice waterhole or stream can really add to the camping experience, and this is why nearly all the beach camp grounds are fully booked out in summer school holidays and weekends many months in advance
• the following is a list of some nice spots for a swim when camping inland in Victoria
• in addition to these, there are also lots of free lakeside camping options which allow swimming and boating, for example:
  • Delatite Arm campgrounds Lake Eildon
  • Lake Burrumbeet near Ballarat
  • Green Hill Lakes Camping Reserve, Ararat
  • Lake Lonsdale near Stawell

• Ayson's Reserve Camping Ground
• Murray River / Gunbower Creek camping at Koondrook
• Murray River camping
• Trawool Wildlife Reserve Campground on the Gouldburn River and Horseshoe Lagoon Nature Reserve
• Maritz Bend on the Goulburn River nth of Murchison
• Mitta Mitta river NE victoria

• Murrindindi Scenic Reserve camping
• campgrounds in Rubicon valley
• Howqua Hills / Sheepyard Flats camping area
• Jamieson region camp grounds
• Warburton's Bridge campground

• Braithwaite Beach, Eurobin (3.5 hours from Melbourne CBD)
• Tronoh Dredge Hole, Harrietville (4 hours from Melbourne CBD)
• Rollasons Falls, Mt Buffalo (4 hours from Melbourne CBD)
• Mermaid Beach Rockpool, Mt Beauty (4 hours from Melbourne CBD)
• Pretty Valley Creek Pools, Falls Creek (5 hours from Melbourne CBD)

• Briagolong Blue Pool, Briagolong (3 hours from Melbourne CBD)
• The Bluff Reserve, Buchan (4.5 hours from Melbourne CBD)
• Coopers Creek, Walhalla

• Cairns Bay, Flinders (1.5 hours from Melbourne CBD)