Phillip Island

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On Friday we drove down to Phillip Island and checked in to the Ramada Resort near Cowes.

Had an interesting visit to the small Churchill Island near the bridge. Lots to see and do at Phillip Island; we enjoyed a great couple of days there.

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Photos

Churchill Is horses
These two Clydesdales were carefully grooming each other. They came over for a brief pat then resumed.

Great "nibbles" dinner
We peaked a little early on the alcohol consumption, but had a fun evening playing dominoes. We finished off Jim's Muscat, just gorgeous!

More visitors
We had met Nancy and Peter Spargo on our Burma holiday and enjoyed their company. They drove over from Lakes Entrance for the day and we had a good catch-up and had a refresher on playing Blitz - a fun card game with $3 stakes. Pairs of these Cape Barren geese were all over the island...

Phillip Is Grand Prix Circuit
The 4.6km circuit was built in 1956 and has had several ups and downs since then. It is still used for car and bike racing. We had fun racing slot cars on a replica of the track. There was also a serious go-cart track - I'd like to try that sometime...

Point Grant
At the westernmost tip of the island. Thousands of seals on the small island off the coast and squillions of Little Penguin burrows, interspersed with wooden box nests.

Little Penguin roost
The penguins live here all year round. They go out fishing before dawn and return to their nests at last light. This little fellow stayed home.

Penguin Parade
Thousands (literally) of spectators arrive by the bus load to watch the penguins come ashore at night. There are probably more people than penguins and we couldn't see the value in paying $25 each to partake. See the bleachers behind the beach?

Woolamai Mutton Bird Rookeries
The southern tip of the island is the home to perhaps 500,000 mutton birds, or Shearwaters. These migrate to the Aleutian Islands each year and return in November until April. We went on a twilight walk to the cliffs and returned after dark. We saw many birds and watched one renovating its burrow - very interesting.

Cape Woolamai
Waiting for the Shearwaters at last light. Daylight saving is great. Can't see it happening in Qld though.

Comments

[Kerrie Lonn]

Very Cute.