Australia trip Day 5 - Philip Island

Since the trip for today started at noon time, I got the chance to visit Jin Han's swimming class and gymnastic class. He is good in both swimming and gymnastic. Unfortunately I couldnt enter the hall to see his practices for gym, I had to stand outside the door, but it was all worthy when I saw him doing great for balancing beam and rolling. I was like the parents, feeling so proud when see my own nephew able to perform amazingly. He saw me through the small window and waved at me. That made me excited too!! Perhaps one day he could join Olympics and make us proud though he is not going to represent Malaysia? haha XD *Miss him so much now*

Ah Su jie jie then drove us to the bus station in front of Hotel Novotel to wait for the coach. We started our journey to Philip Island at around 12.30pm. We got the same tour guide for today, Mr Alan! :)

The first destination before Philip Island was Maru Koala and Animal Park. There were Koala bear, Kangaroo, Wallabies, Tasmania's Devil, Grass Mud Horse, etc. 

I am so excited to see Koala Bear in real for the very first time!! It looked so stupid and cute! It was very difficult to take a photo of koala because it always hides at the top of the tree. Thanks to my Sony camera I was able to take quite some clear photo of the koalas. Koala only do 3 things, sleep and eat and climb higher to have more leaves to eat. And they can only live the most 15 years. The baby koala is even smaller than a thumb!

Koala rarely sit on the ground. CUTE!! 

We bought some food to feed kangaroo too. $2 for this.

Feeding and Touching time. :)

The white kangaroo/wallabies. It looked like a HUGE RAT!!

The white grass mud horse (草泥马/羊驼) and the Donkey 

The very noisy and talkative parrots!!

The sleeping Tasmania's Devil.
It looked small and quite tame right? But it is actually an extremely fierce carnivore! It eats meat and even human being!!

Way to Philip Island.

We went to a Farm and watched the performance of sheep shearing.
Pity the botak sheep. It looked so 'extraordinary' and weird.

I love the blue sky and greenish grass. Such comfortable and relaxing view.

We then headed to the Koala Reservation Centre. We had a look in the museum to know more about the life cycle of a koala, the sound of koala and so on. The fur of the koala is quite thick and rough. There are specimen of an adult koala and a baby koala displayed in the museum too.

Koala in the jungle. Doing it's reversing. HAHA.
The staff told us that there are about 20 koalas in this centre. Every koala has their own name and the staff can recognize every of them. I wondered how they did it coz every koala looked the same.

Way to Nobbies centre. I love the sun like this. The sun ray is beautiful!

There were so many seagulls there. They did not afraid of human and they will attack you if you are eating.

How beautiful ! I mean the scenery......... Miss it! <3 p="p">

Photo of the day. 

I love this photo so much!!!

Seagull and baby seagull. Baby seagull is so ugly with grey fur. Dont understand how it turned to be so pure white in colour after it.

With my tour guide Mr Alan.

See, so many seagulls.

At the beach. This is the sky at 8pm. Everybody wore like it was winter season because it was really freezing cold to stay at the beach side, waiting patiently for the sky to get dark and the little penguin to come back home. Photo shooting is strictly not allowed here and this was the photo taken before we get warned by the fierce staff. The penguins are cute! They queue up and waited for their group members and walked back together to their cave. If their group members incomplete or missing, all of them will swim back to the sea and up to the beach repeatedly until all of the penguins arrived. It was like calling their absent partners. It made me touched! Because the penguins need to swim to maybe South Poles to search for food and they kept the food in their mouth and came back to feed their baby.  It is a tough job but they do it everyday. The responsibility they had is just so precious. And the 'friendship' among the penguins is precious too. Penguins seemed more appreciate and know more about the meaning of friendship than we human.

Back to Melbourne at around 9pm after the Penguin Parade. Arrived at around 11pm and I get cold. :(

TO BE CONTINUED......