We saw a solitary sign for World Super Bikes close to Philip Island…..so we went there for a long weekend, bonus, in the process making new friends, Phil and Kent, his son, (very apt as that is where we are from), and Richard and his absent new wife, (he was on honeymoon), she is not into bikes. We stayed with Richard and his new wife in Cowes before we left Philip Island. We watched the famous Penguin Parade….cute little things, and they walk such a long way inland (often up steep hills) to their burrows (or deluxe handmade boxes, still don’t know how they do that, small ‘beak held’ tools I guess). They hang around by the water till there’s a good size gang, and its dark enough not to get scoffed by predators, and then
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