For the last few days I've been driving from Melbourne to Sydney via the Prince's Highway, the scenic route from Melbourne to Sydney, with an Israeli, Omri, and German, Claudia! We started off in St. Kilda making a stop in Balachlava, the Jewish/Israeli neighborhood nearby for some VIP treatment and amazing hummus and shisli (sp?) where Omri had previously befriended some local restaurant owners :) before heading on to Phillip Island where I went to the local wildlife park saw kangaroos, koalas, wallabies, wombats, emus, echidna (hedgehog), cassawarys, fruit bats, Tasmanian devil, and heaps of birds!! I was lucky enough to see koala's eat (they sleep ~23 hours/day) and hand-fed kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, emus (scary!! they're quite greedy and BIG), and many random ducks. The wombats were my favorite! They looked like a cross between a
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