At Phillip Island

It was the eve of the Christmas Eve (23rd Dec 08). With Vik Tor visiting from Brisbane, we decided to visit the Phillip Island. It’s about 150km from Melbourne and the journey (by car) took us about 2 hours 30 minutes.

We departed around 9am and we’re hoping to catch the Pelican feeding session at San Remo at 12pm. San Remo is the last town on the mainland before crossing the bridge to Phillip Island… and we did manage to see the feeding session.

Pelican feeding session at San Remo.

We had our lunch at San Remo and stuffed ourselves with Fish & Chips with Osyter. Personally, I didn’t like it. It was Vik Tor’s idea to let us try. At the end, he ate most of it.

Waiting to eat

Fish & Chips

Before I proceed, it’s best to clarify how did we get to Phillip Island. I DIDN’T buy a car. I DIDN’T rent a car. Thanks to Simon for letting us to use his car during his holiday back home to Malaysia. Thank you so much. And just to show off a little bit

My 5 minutes of fame.

Ok…back to the journey. After lunch, we crossed the bridge to the island. We visited the “AMaze N Thing”. Here, I’ll let the pictures do all the talking.

A room filled with water (I wish we can enter it)

This mirror thing is really cool and confusing

A quite tricky Maze

Yay! We “conquered” the maze.

There’s mini golf too.

I wouldn’t recommend this. It’s a 18-hole mini golf course. By the time we reached the 6th hole, things started to get very very very very……………. (you get the point) BORED! I think it’s because we suck in golf, I can’t find better explanation for the boredom.

Next stop….Phillip Island Grand Prix circuit. This circuit hosted the MotoGP as well as A1 GP. For me, this is a must visit. Unfortunately, when we reached there, it’s almost 5:45pm. It’s closed. Well……. a picture will do, even though it’s outside the circuit.

At least…..

The highlight of the island is of course the penguins. These cute little penguins will come back to shore near sunset. The sad part was, since now it’s summer, the sun set very slow. The arrival time for the penguins the night before was 9pm. So, since we have around 3 hours to kill, we decided to have dinner in Cowes. After dinner, we went off to Nobbies for a bit of sight seeing before “waiting” for the penguins to arrive. We weren’t allowed to take any pictures of penguin.

At Nobbies.

The penguins eventually arrived at around 915pm. Some tips. Just get the cheapest ticket as you still can see the penguin up close. Left the island at around 1030pm and reached Melbourne around 1am.