Holmwood Guesthouse Cowes
37 Chapel Street, (cnr Steele St) Cowes, Phillip Island, Victoria, 3922, Australia
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Penquin Paradise
Phillip Island
We set off early this morning and arrived at San Remo in time for the Pelican feeding at 12 noon. When we arrived there was a guy feeding the stingrays which apparently is something he only does once a month, but unfortunately they cannot feed the pelicans if the stingrays are there as the pelicans are too nervous. The lady …
2nd 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 journeyed onto Churchill Island where there was a house set up from 1872, followed by Cape …
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An update
... been steadily rebuilding these towns and the land is very green again however the scars on the landscape are very evident and it will be some time before their covered over.
We are off to the Mornington Peninsula tomorrow and Spa with Hot Springs. It is located near Cape Schanck and you will see it just to the left on the map from Cowes. This part of Australia is quite beautiful and we will post photos etc ... from there.
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Last Few Days of Australia
Our last few days in Australia we spent with a great friend of ours Michael Callanan (aka: Bushy). We had met him whilst working at Yandi and have kept in touch pretty regularly ever since. We stayed with Bushy at his mums house in his spare room which was great for us; a real bed in our own room without 6 other strangers, ahhh!
After a day of organising things, posting things home, and preparing for New Zealand, ...
Tiger snakes and leeches!
Hi again from Australia:
Tiger snakes and leeches – we thought that might catch your attention! Those were but a couple of the highlights we encountered during more wonderful days of birding with Steve "The Melbourne Birder" in the areas south and east of the city.
One week ago we left “The Mouse House” in Kyneton and navigated our way through the Melbourne toll-ways to the Mornington Peninsula, an ...



