After lunch and a visit to a bird of prey santuary we headed to the coast to see seals, hundreds of them in fact.
Next day we flew to Melbourne and toured the city. After an early breakfast we set off for Phillip Island - it's about an hour and a half from the city our first main stop was at the Koala park. We took the helicopter ride over the island and had a great view of where we were going to see the penguins later that evening.
After spectacular views of the island we arrived at the Koala sanctuary. Finally we had our fist sighting – they were just gorgeous so cute and most of them were just lodged in the trees fast asleep – we were both wowed by them.
Our next stop was the Penguin Parade to see Fairy penguins the smallest penguin– and the driver took us round the hills were you could see all there burrows and it was here we saw a couple of baby ones we also spotted some black tail wallabies.
When we arrived we had booked a tour with one of the Rangers who took us down on to the beach to see our fist penguins coming out of the sea. They don’t come out until dust for fear of predators and even then if one gets spooked the group all run back into the sea – its so funny to see this happening!
We then went up to the walk way and here you are inches away here you can see their beautiful feathers – they were so determined in their walk – some of them it can take from the time the leave the sea to get to their burrows about 2 hours all up hills.
Finally it was time to go – and so at 10pm we were on our way back to Melbourne. It was a good 2 hours back – luckily this time we were the fist drop – and we just collapsed into bed.
Today we fancied a lazy day and so just did a bit of shopping.
We awoke to rain - the weatehr so far had been mainly overcast and even cold so we were glad to be catching a flight to Coolangata about an hour from Brisbane on the east coast.
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