Tarwin River

A great place to visit. Very educational. Gives great insight into the life of a coal miner. We spent over an hour, looking at places like the steam train, the blacksmith's hut, a museum that showed the lives of the coal miners and their families, and the token hut, which displayed the names and tokens of those coal miners who once worked at the site. It's free to enter and you can go at your own pace. There is also a guided tour into the mines but it is not operational at present, we were lucky enough to be able to see inside one of the tunnels as a guide was kind enough to take a group of us that were there down 100 metres.

The State Coal Mine is a former 20th-century state-owned black coal mine located in Wonthaggi. The mine was operational from 1910 until 1968 and is now a state park and tourist attraction.Read more