Portarlington Mussel Festival 2025

Portarlington Mussel Festival

Saturday 11 January 2025

The 2025 ferry schedule is now available

The Portarlington Mussel Festival started as a street festival back in 2007 as a way to celebrate and promote the local mussel industry. Today it’s grown into one of the most popular community festivals in Victoria with over 30,000 visitors, live music all day long, hundreds of market stalls and a whole lotta delicious mussels. A great day out for the entire family!

Set against the backdrop of picturesque Portarlington beach, this one-day festival is the perfect reason to explore the Bellarine Peninsula this summer. And best of all, leave the car at home and catch the ferry directly between Docklands and Portarlington!

Enjoy a full day of activities including:

• Live music over three main stages all day long
• Mussels cooked in a variety of styles
• Kids activities
• Cooking demonstrations
• Art and photo exhibitions
• Classic car displays
• Beer and wine tasting
• Over 200 market stalls

Choose between 3 departure times from Melbourne and 3 departure times home from Portarlington after the event. These options allow you to head over for just a few hours or stay for the whole day. The ferry times available are:

Docklands > Portarlington

9.00 am Docklands > 10.10 am Portarlington
10.15 am Docklands > 11.25 am Portarlington
12.10 pm Docklands > 1.20 pm Portarlington

Portarlington > Docklands

2.30 pm Portarlington > 3.40 pm Docklands
5.00 pm Portarlington > 6.10 pm Docklands
6.00 pm Portarlington > 7.10 pm Docklands

Below is the 2025 Schedule

Please Note When Booking

As there are a number of booking times available, firstly you’ll need to select your preferred ferry time over to Portarlington and add this to your cart. Then you’ll see a prompt to select your return ferry time which will be added to the same booking when selected. We recommend booking early to secure your preferred travel times as we do sell out every year.