Emu

Stage 26

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March 27th 2008
This place is really cool, I hired a car for a couple of days and took a drive down. There's a penguin sanctuary here where you can go down when it's getting dark and watch all the Little Penguins come in from the sea after a days fishing. It's really funny watching these little one foot high birds waddle back up the beach to there burrows all full up. Unfortunately they won't let you take picture ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Philip Island

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more