There plenty of dark skies in Victoria.
As always it depends on how much you want to drive.
Snake Valley is good but still to close to Ballarat to be fully dark. But having a place to go with friendly people is more of an advantage than not. Also SV seems to get great seeing in the mornings.
Keeping away from big towns like Bendigo etc will help. In the East of Victoria there are smaller towns so there are more darker skies there. I use to travel that way a lot.
Also nearer to the SA border has plenty of dark skies also.
The main rule I would follow is keep away from the big towns and as far away from Melbourne as possible. Where I live on the Mornington Peninsula we are close to Melbourne but can still find places where it’s dark to the South East and West. But never in the North!! Seems some big metropolis is there!
Good luck with your search.
