Lakes Entrance
Trip Start
Jan 28, 2008
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Trip End
May 27, 2008
Lakes Entrance,
Australia
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Monday we drove down the peninusula to Queenscliff to catch the ferry to Sorrento. It's amazing what I'll do to avoid the traffic in Melbourne. First a train and then a ferry.
A bonus on the ferry ride was a view of a pod of dolphins off the starboard bow. Sorrento lives up to its Itaian namesake (we'll be there in the middle of May). Warm weather, hillside roads and expresso cafes. We didn't take the tour of millionaires homes; those that escape from Melbourne to the seaside.
We worked our way down to Wonthaggi. After dinner we doubled back to Phillips Island to view the Penguins Parade. Every evening several thousand little penguins (33 cm tall) mass on shore in groups called rafts. They don't dare cross on their own so they wait to get a group together to waddle across the beach to get to their burrows in the dunes. Taking photos was strictly forbidden (probably so you would buy their postcards and other souvenirs). It was neat how the penguins went under the boardwalk only a few feet away, around the thickets to their burrows where their chicks, almost grown, came out to get their meal of regurgitated fish, Yum!
Today we headed further east and, after a picnic lunch by a river watching the pelicans and fending off the seagulls, we arrived at Lakes Entrance. That's really the name of a place. Tomorrow's even better, we go through a place called Nowa Nowa. Hopefully it's not "Nowhere".
We had another long walk along the main drag, had a swim in the saltwater pool (the ocean current was dangerous just now), and went to a restaurant called L'Akes (For Members only, but they except anyone with money for the price of a meal as "guests". We enoye dinner and the time and attention from the manager who took the time to give us advice as to where to find kangaroos. We've been in OZ, both on the main roads and on the back roads, in open country and through the woods but haven't seen a one (except probably the remains of one on the road on our way back from the Penguin Parade.
Tonight we touched base with my cousin and plan to meet up with him on Friday.
Comments
Any Kangaroo's yet
Hope you had a nice visit with your cousin and he was able to help you find a kangaroo. Were the roads really paved with gold in OZ?
John & Cindy