Spent our Wedding Anniversary @ Phillip Island staying at
Cowes Caravan Park we hired a cabin for 2 nights, clean, warm and reasonably priced
for the 2 nights.
Arrived at Phillip Island around 1pm straight to the info
center to get some local knowledge and pamphlets on the local attractions
booked that night for the Penguin Parade while we were there then a stop at the
Chocolate Factory not the best we have visited and wanted to charge around $17
for a tour of the factory we did not stay long then off to the Caravan park to load
the fridge up with alcohol.
Went for a drive in to
the main part of town, we want to book an afternoon cruise however were booked
out to the following Thursday a little disappointed but life went on, walked
around town looking for “gloves” as the weather was wet, overcast and a little
on the cool side drove out to San Remo for lunch at the Fish CO-OP then out to
the Penguin Parade ready for the show.
A huge complex with food and gift shops
then a walk out on a boardwalk to the seating area waiting for the penguins to
arrive. A huge area with seating like a amphitheater on the beach the penguins arrive
in small batches walked up the beach then into the area for the night on our
way back to the “info center” you could see them making their way in the
burrows for the evening would have been a few hundred attending that night mostly
international friends!!!
Stopped at the local RSL for dinner watched the football back
in the cabin and planning the following days agenda
Saturday morning up
for breakfast in town @ Madcows Cafe, then a drive to the Nobbies center where we walked around the boardwalk they have on the most western side of the
island we spent the next few hour’s driving around the island and stopping at
different places Kitty Miller bay, Shipwreck SS Speke, Pyramid Rock lookout, Rhyll
inlet, Churchill Island out to Wanthagi and stopped at the “Rusty Water brewery
for a beer on the way back to cabin. Dinner was the local Thai restaurant back
to the cabin and in bed by 8:30 as we had both been crook over the weekend with
the flu
Up early Sunday for the drive home Maccas breakfast on the
way and home by Midday. A nice weekend with another item penguins off the “bucket
list” of things to see
