Port Phillip & the Fairy Penquins

Ron, Steve and I headed for for a day trip to Port Phillip. We had booked a tour so we rode the train downtown and met the tour group close to China Town in Melbourne. We are getting pretty good at riding the rails!! Our first stop was at a Conservation Park where we could get up close and personal to Kangaroos and other animals. We got to walk around the park and feed the Kangaroos. They were very friendly and would eat out of your hand. We also saw Koalas napping in the trees. They sleep 20 hours a day and eat the other 4 hours. What a life. The Emus were very aggressive, Ron got his hand bitten when he tried to feed them. We decided they weren't that hungry and walked on. We stopped in a little seaport to eat some more fish and chips. We learned that Flake Fish is really Shark! It was a beautiful view of the sunset. We drove on to Phillip Island where we could view the fairy penguins after the sun goes down (9:00) along with hundreds of other tourists. The penguins come in and burrow in little holes in the beach every night after a day of fishing. The foxes are their predator so the conservationist are building little boxes in the areas where they come in to save them from the foxes and other enemies. We were not allowed to take pictures because of the flash. We got back to our train stop at about 12 midnight, we got back to Rob's house after 1:00am and had to get up at 4:30 to catch our taxi to the airport where we caught our flight to Tasmania. To be continued.....