Southern Ocean Lodge

On a stretch of clifftop between Flinders Chase National Park and Seal Bay, twenty-five suites and a single elevated pavilion trace the coastline above the Southern Ocean. The lodge burned down in the January 2020 bushfires and reopened in December 2023, rebuilt by Max Pritchard Gunner Architects to nearly the same footprint, with suites reoriented south-east toward uninterrupted ocean views. At its centre, the Great Room reprises the original's glass-walled form, floor-to-ceiling windows framing limestone cliffs and rolling scrub. The rebuild leans further into its environmental brief than the first version did: a solar-battery hybrid system and expanded water capture make the new building roughly a quarter more energy-efficient. Days are spent on the property's own conservation land, walking tracks cut through mallee and grass-tree country before returning to a kitchen built around the island's produce — king george whiting, marron, local wine. It reads less like a resort than a considered piece of coastal architecture, rebuilt close to what stood there before.

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