The pointy tip of Victoria

Part 2 of our travels was to the Phillip Island and the Mornington Peninsula.

We embarked on our road trip in my trusty Lancer once again. If Lancer had a soul, it'd probably thank me for allowing it to explore victoria, and then curse me for not washing it at all and for all the scratches i've made on it's once pristine exterior.

First stop, Phillip Island's chocolate factory, then A Maze N Things where we took tonnes of photos, but none suitable for this platform for privacy issues of course, and then the Koala Conservation.


The mother and baby koala were literally just feet away from us and a bunch of tourists going crazy with their cameras. I guess you could count us as one of them too. Maybe the workers in the conservation area had psychic powers or the koalas knew how to read signs, because i swear, whenever there was a sign on the boardwalk about a koala, there was sure to be a koala to be found nearby.


Then off to the sea lion colony place. Sorry i can't remember the name nor can i be bothered to google it. Beaches... there's something about the sea, sky and their blueness that makes me feel contented.


Here's a pic to demonstrate that yes, seagulls can invert their webbed feet and have exceptional balancing skills to boot.


More blue and green in an over exposed panorama. Unfortunately, i only just realised this despite having look through these pictures at least 5 times.

And finally to the fairy penguin parade of which we have no pictures of because don't you know that "flash photography is bad for penguins"? Well, they don't seem to have a problem standing mere inches away from the lights of the boardwalk and hoards of the most fearsome animal on earth - man. We who have the ability to destroy everything we hold dear.

Despite efforts at conservation, we have of course ultimately constructed metres of boardwalk over their routes home, complete with electrical wiring to support the lights and somehow taught them that humans confined within the boardwalks are not scary. In a hundred years maybe they'll be eating out of our hands.


Sea, sky, puffy clouds and miles of unoccupied sand. Ahhh...... peace.




So we drove to Mornington Peninsula and visited this lighthouse thingy in one of the nature reserves. The name totally escapes me but if u give me a map i can point it out to you.




Of course no trip is complete without delicious local fare. The scallops and seafood linguine were to die for at the Pier restaurant in Rye. Just looking at it makes me salivate.


On our last day, we squeezed in a visit to Sunny Ridge Strawberry Farm. The strawberries open for picking, more than ordinary. Perhaps all the good ones were long gone by late morning. The ice cream more than made up for it.