PHILLIP ISLAND

We decided to head off to Phillip Island as it was a bank holiday 2 weeks ago and we rented a cottage in the main town called Cowes. It was great to get out of the city and the Island has so much natural beauty all around.

The weather on this weekend was not too kind but we did manage to get out and about most days.

We went walking on the headland around Woolamai Beach which was gorgeous and very similar landscape to NZ. The wind was really gusting though which made the walk even more spectacular as the waves were battering the headland below.

These guys live in the trees on the island - there is actually a sanctuary where they have put boards in stilts so you can walk amoungst the trees and see them almost at eye level! They seem so fed up and miserable!!! As it happens, they are always really spaced out because they only eat eucalyptus leaves which have a drug which makes them high all the time!!!

There are thousands of minature penguins that live on the island and every night they come out of the water and woddle up to their burrows in the sand. There are litterally thousands of them and you can go and watch them (although we didn't). They don't mind at all that hundreds of humans come out every night to see them - they just pop out of the ocean and waddle past!!