Cowes, Phillip Island, Australia

Today was mostly about driving again as I needed to make my along the Victoria coast to get to Cowes on Phillip Island. The Lonely planet is not terribly expansive on this part of Oz – giving over about two pages, very little of which is of any use.& ...

... complicated to get back through melbourne and then west. I had even more time to kill. not much to do here. Mostly farmland this island is. Nice green hills. Lots of sheep. Good break from the city. chatted with some people at teh hostel, a couple of cups ...

... , but no one pinched the bike anyway. The koala conservation centre was really nice: a patch of bush land where Phillip Island's koala population lives protected from development but they do have to put up with people coming and looking at them every ...

07.05.09: Only a short drive today!! We are getting closer and closer to Melbourne! We are now in Phillips island. We went to Nobbies, the end of the island to walk along the rocks were the seals usually are. It is unfortunately not the season, so we did ...