Melbourne Aquarium

Hey everyone, Back from great ocean road safe and sound :) it was amazing but as I'm sure you've seen from the grand prix is was raining- typical! Still got to see alot and had a great time. Yesterday I went to the aquarium and saw all the penguins, got loads of photos to show you all when I'm back. There was a life size model of a fully grown …

Lesson learnt from today: last minute travel plans can be painfully expensive. We got up, and confirmed our campervan to Tasmania. Did I mention that yet? No? Yeah, I probably should have written it earlier, but a couple of days ago Jake and Virva suggested we take a relocation deal over there, since most people miss the island and it is supposed …

Traveled to city by train from Watergardens in Sydenham. Met Sydney at Telstra after may years and visited Aquarium before returning home.

We head down to Melbourne aquarium with Cheryl and Jim on their day off work. It has the usual collections of fish, coral, starfish, crabs and sharks that are all worth a look. The highlight has to be the penguin enclosure, it is the best we have ever seen at any zoo. The penguins have snow and ice to play on, a pool to swim in and little hills and …

My dad gave me the best early Birthday Present ever. He came all the way to Australia just to see me and spoil the hell out of me. We had a slow start to the week because I was recovering from my week at Uni Games. I got to see alot of Melbourne CBD and a few touristy places. We also did tours out to Phillip Island (where the little Penguins are) …

G'day Bruce's and Sheila's from a cold Melbourne!

This week begins from Tuesday when I moved hostels in Melbourne! I was up early to get checked out of Habitat HQ and got a taxi into the CBD to my new hostel Flinders Station Backpackers which is really central to the the city and tram network too! When I arrived I got straight into my …

Shane has a bucket list. On his bucket list, is of course, top sporting events he would like to see. Up the top is, Bells Beach ASP (Rip Curl Classic) one of the biggest events in the surfing world calendar and what better time to go than when you know athletes in it!? Also, on his bucket list is The Great Ocean road. Two birds with one stone! I …

We're off to Melbourne for the day to do the touristy things and we even have a tourist book with money off vouchers it could not get any better. We got the train from Geelong which was only about an hour, got to Melbourne and started to navigate our way through the huge skyscrapers.

We headed for the aquarium first down at the river banks …

We got up early today, had a lovely wash in the toilets and washed our hair from a bucket (classy campers J ). We then headed across the road to the train station once dressed and jumped on the train in the city using our Myki cards from 2 months ago. Nearly an hour later we jumped off at Parliament square and had a quick look around the grand …

This blog is long over due as its nine months since we have arrived in Melbourne!!!! We arrived here on 16/10 on my birthday as it was a great present just to get here!! We were focused on to get a job, a car and a place to move into. We checked into Formula One Hotel, which is a cheap place to stay and the bus driver from the airport dropped us …

... Grand Prix, and some kind of International Swimming tournament that the details are hazy on, and then next week it's the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Although we couldn't see the Grand Prix track from where we're staying, what with their high walls, we ...

... next day James has planned a trip out with Elaine and Bob, so I decided to have a look at Melbourne museum after being so impressed with the National Australia Museum. I was again lucky to arrive just before a guided tour started. The guided tour lasted ...

... supports work and play (and spray?) in equal measure. We did have one short circuit when the earnest staff at the Melbourne Aquarium refused to allow us to do their quasi-scuba underwater 'Walk With The Sharks' (after learning of the performance ...

... in the glorious sunshine. Tuesday 30th January Hired bikes and rode along the banks of the Yarra river that splits Melbourne. Passed the MCG cricket ground and Rod Laver stadium, home of the Australian tennis open. Wednesday 31st January ...

... family has been wonderful to me and helped me get adjusted to Australia and let me know what I should and shouldn't do around Melbourne. Australia, at least from what I've seen so far in Melbourne is very similiar to Canada. But everything just seems ...

Today I actually managed to do my first touristy things in Melbourne. I started with the Melbourne Aquarium, which is on the banks of the Yarra River. The aquarium was really impressive, with lots of unusual fish and lots of different sharks. I then ...

... in Melbourne. It was so nice staying with family and being able to unpack properly! During our time in Melbourne we walked around the centre, went to the aquarium to see the baby hammerheads! Anne and Pippa took me to see a musical- 'the boy from ...

... popular destination for Australians to come for skiing in the winter.  Our goal here was to see Mt. Kosciuszko, the tallest mountain in Australia.  Sam did a report on it last year so we thought it would be fun for him to see.  We ...

... shops and famous laneways, the National Gallery of Victoria, the views from the Eureka Skydeck, the Botanical Gardens, Victoria Market, Melbourne Aquarium and Southbank.  Unfortunately Luke and I were in work all week and missed out on most of the ...

... River und gönnten uns ein Eis und eine kleine Pause bevor wir dann unsere Flussfahrt in die Docklands starteten und einiges über Melbourne erfuhren. Als wir nach der Flussfahrt wieder anlegten, war es fünf Uhr, zur Erinnerung es ist Freitag, und die ...