phillip island

phillip island is a small island about 1.5 hours south of melbourne. it is apparently an awesome island for surfing, watersports, bushwalks and wildlife viewing. unfortunately for us, it was raining. a lot.

we arrive at phillip island one evening, hoping to catch the famous penguin parade- a nightly viewing of the penguins arriving on the beach. this happens sometime around sunset (lately, 8:30pm or so) and there is upwards of 1000 penguins involved. the night we arrived, it was pouring. really truly pouring. so we decided to (illicitly) camp for the night just off the island and return to enjoy it all the next day instead.

alas, t'was not to be. we had one of those days where nothing seemed to go right. difficulty with my bike, requiring it to be serviced on the island, inability to find kayaks to rent even though the tourist information people told us "where" to go and that it wouldn't be a problem, and then when we finally sorted out our day, the rain stared upon us. again. rain rain rain. more rain.

we had planned to visit the chocolate factory on the island as well, but it was going to cost us some cash, which we don't particularly like to be seperated from, and it was bulging at the seams with sugar-infused children. two negative ticks.

at the end of the day, we were so annoyed with nothing going right and with the weather, that we decided to bugger off and forget the penguins. so off we drove to random town after random town trying to find a place for the night (or 2) where we might get power and access to some indoor activities to wait out the rain.

the weather bureau is predicting rain for the next few days. our travels may be less then exciting if that's the case. as it turns out, there's not much to do on the gippsland coast if it's raining. fingers cross the that the weatherman is wrong and we can start exploring again tomorrow morning.

xo