Red Rocks Homestead
Travel Blogs from Cowes
Philip Island
... and it was going to be a long wait. So there was nothing for it but to find an alternative, which in fact was the restaurant just next door where we had a very relaxing and tasty lunch . Thanks Sarah and Chris for treating us! Stuffed to the gunnels we decided to have a stroll around the village before driving back along the highway to Melbourne again. We made good time and arrived home in the late afternoon having spent a very enjoyable weekend ...
Phillip Island - fun, fast, fish & an earthquake!!
... spend their days in the water hunting and only come back to their burrows in the sand dunes under the cover of darkness. Each penguin has his/her own burrow so it is incredible to see them come out of the water in groups of around 20 and all head in their own directions. Just like a group of people who have just got off the bus, heading home from work. They are very cautious and won't come onto the beach unless they are sure it is safe, a few times we saw them turn and run back into ...
Alex can't stop smiling at Little Blue Penguins
... I happened to look up in a tree. I thought to myself that it looked like a good tree for a koala to be in when I noticed a furry ball sitting in the crook of the branches. We walked closer to the tree & saw the koalas face. It was very cute!! It was so well camouflaged I can see why they're hard to spot. We took tons of photos to prove we'd seen one then happily carried on.
We drove a bit further down to the coast & stopped in a little ...
My Ya-Ya's 40!!
... done for me. I shared about Shell telling me once nine years ago that I wasn't crazy.
The night ended quite sedately, unusual when we get together to celebrate - with me bedding down on the couch around 11pm, to get up for work the next morning at 5.15am. Wendy drove me to the station - what a doll.
I caught the train from Seaford, near Frankston.
Sunday morning my kind son drove me all the way to work; what a guy!
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Phillip (Ei)land...Spiel.. Spass.. Spannung... =)
... br> Hahaha... Nina hat Kuehe gemolken... auch wenn sie da ihre Schwierigkeiten hatte =)
Des weiteren gab die Insel tolle Einblicke in das Schmiedehandwerk sowie das Schafehueten mittels Hunden...
Ein Hund handelt stolze 600 Schafe.. krasse Biester... nach einer Kutschfahrt, abgefahrenen Huehnern mit 'Schuhen' und einigen anderen Kleinigkeiten ging es dann auch schon wieder weiter....
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