Venus Bay is a wide bay and a township on that
bay on the east coast of Victoria, Australia. At
the 2006 census Venus Bay had a population
of 509.

The name Venus Bay was given to the bay by a
French expedition under Nicholas Baudin. This
was apparently after George Bass's trading
ship the Venus. (The expedition traded with
Bass in Sydney in around 1801.)

The town of Venus Bay is situated on a narrow
peninsula of land located 180 km south-east of
Melbourne. Originally named Evergreen the
town takes its name from the body of water on
its western shore. On the eastern side of the
peninsula is Anderson's Inlet, named after the
settler Samuel Anderson.

Venus Bay has become a popular holiday
retreat for people from Melbourne and is close
to other popular South Gippsland tourist spots
such as Phillip Island and Wilsons Promontory.
The permanent population hovers around the
500 mark, however this can swell into the
thousands during holiday periods. The town of
Venus Bay is split into three 'estates'. The First
Estate is home to the only shopping strip in
Venus Bay, consisting of a general store, fishing
and surfing store, take-away shops, real estate
agents, caravan park and a restaurant. Three of
Venus Bay's five surf beaches (Nos. 1, 2 and 3
beaches) are in the First Estate, with the Venus
Bay Surf Livesaving Club located at the No. 1
Beach. This is the only patrolled beach,
although during the busy summer period surf
patrols regularly make their way up and down
the beaches to just beyond No. 5 beach.