Koala Conservation Centre Phillip Island

Truly the most amazing day - which is a hard title to win on this trip but this one definitely gets it. We took the Bunyip Tours 1 Day Phillip Island Penguin Parade Ultimate Tour which took us south of Melbourne to Phillip Island for the following fabulousness:

It rained hard throughout the morning, but by the time I got up at 8AM the sun was periodically breaking through the clouds to reveal the Melbourne cityscape. My first thought upon seeing my surroundings was that it looked very much like England – the architecture was so similar and people were driving on the same side of the road as us. For …

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Now I finally feel like I am in Australia. We left the city of Melbourne at 2:00p.m. and made our way down to Phillip Island. Phillip Island is 20kms x 9kms, it is a holiday Island with about 40 000 holiday people during the Christmas season. So essentially like our Lake Properties back home

Our first stop was at this …

We headed to Phillip Island on a train from Flinders Street to Dandenong, from there we joined a bus service to Anderson followed by another bus to Newhaven where our accommodation was. It took near 4 hours to reach the island but by the time we did the sun had come out and the heavy rain was passing.

The island is connected to the …

... up up the beach in wee groups and disappear into the dunes to have very noisy sex. Earlier that day we went to the Koala Conservation Centre, and got to see koala bears up close and personal.  This was actually a lot better than I thought it was ...

... no pics as they're banned to protect the penguins.) As if penguins weren't enough, the island has also developed its own koala conservation centre, again stressing the natural environment it's created. Here you're able to wander through woodland to ...

... eine kleine Huette zu mieten (Danke Mama) und schauten uns unsere Fotos von Asien zusammen an. 07/FEB/2006 To a nearby Koala Conservation centre where we saw the animals up close. We shared a very close moment with a joey (young koala) who was ...

... the Italian restaurant in Cowes. Yesterday I didn't feel much better but borrowed a bike anyway and wobbled off to the Phillip Island Koala Conservation Centre. Hired bikes are always a bit of a toss-up and this was quite odd: a little small for me, ...

... a fab site with a big camp kitchen (part of the Big 4 Campsites Group) and then headed straight off to the wonderful Koala Conservation Centre.  The area is a small eucalyptus tree (gum tree) forest where the wild Koalas live that is conserved and ...

... cake. Only 2 u-bolts, as Shelley calls them. No worries, u-turns are my specialty. Our day started at the Koala Conservation Centre. I threw a couple coins in the wishing well just outside and made two wishes. One, to see some koalas, which came ...

... to eat in a café overlooking the sunlit bay. After an after-lunch walk on the beach we drove to the Koala Conservation Center only a few kms away. The Center contains a foot trail through Eucalyptus woods, marked with signs where koalas were spotted ...

... with him sooner or later. We managed to stick to the speed limits and within 2 hours we arrived without incident at the Koala Conservation Centre. It took us a little while to find the little blighters as they sleep up in the trees for most of the day. ...

Phillip Island II – 3/02/10 We started off this morning at the Koala Conservation Centre. It was very hot (!) and on first observation we saw 12 koalas (not so easy to spot high in the trees) including a  baby koala, so sweet!  We ...

... 10 in the morning, returning to our accommodation at approx. 10:30 at night. The day started with a trip to the Koala Conservation Centre. The Centre was good. We got to view a lot of Koalas in there natural habitat. The only thing is there is not that ...