Day 16: Phillip Island and back to Melbourne
This morning, we didn’t have much of a plan except to get back to Melbourne sometime during the day. We had breakfast and found some free internet at the library to try booking some stuff (which never happened). We wasted so much time that it was lunchtime, so we went back to the Thai place and ate some good food – who knows when we would get a tasty meal like that again!
We then went to a wildlife reserve where we saw lots of animals native to Australia, including kangaroos and wallabies that were roaming free on the acres of land. It was cool, but a little zoo-like (though the kangaroos and some wallabies were free to roam in acres of land) – so it wasn’t as cool as seeing them in the wild. We did get to feed them as they came right up to us (they’re used to it, with all the visitors), but it was a little intimidating as they jumped towards us with excitement!
After that, we went to a koala sanctuary, where we walked through more boardwalks across the trees and saw some koalas in their natural habitat. Did you know koalas sleep 20 hours a day because their diet of eucalyptus leaves is so light, they need to preserve their energy? Nice life!
After the sanctuary, we visited a winery on a mountain by the ocean, before heading back to Melbourne. When we got back to the city, we needed to find a hotel, so we drove around and stopped into a whole bunch (which were mostly sold out or ridiculously expensive because apparently it was the Queen’s birthday long weekend)! So we found one hotel and we took it! We had leftover Thai for dinner and passed out – we have an early morning tomorrow!
This morning, we didn’t have much of a plan except to get back to Melbourne sometime during the day. We had breakfast and found some free internet at the library to try booking some stuff (which never happened). We wasted so much time that it was lunchtime, so we went back to the Thai place and ate some good food – who knows when we would get a tasty meal like that again!
We then went to a wildlife reserve where we saw lots of animals native to Australia, including kangaroos and wallabies that were roaming free on the acres of land. It was cool, but a little zoo-like (though the kangaroos and some wallabies were free to roam in acres of land) – so it wasn’t as cool as seeing them in the wild. We did get to feed them as they came right up to us (they’re used to it, with all the visitors), but it was a little intimidating as they jumped towards us with excitement!
After that, we went to a koala sanctuary, where we walked through more boardwalks across the trees and saw some koalas in their natural habitat. Did you know koalas sleep 20 hours a day because their diet of eucalyptus leaves is so light, they need to preserve their energy? Nice life!
After the sanctuary, we visited a winery on a mountain by the ocean, before heading back to Melbourne. When we got back to the city, we needed to find a hotel, so we drove around and stopped into a whole bunch (which were mostly sold out or ridiculously expensive because apparently it was the Queen’s birthday long weekend)! So we found one hotel and we took it! We had leftover Thai for dinner and passed out – we have an early morning tomorrow!
Gaurav feeding the kangaroos
Lazy koala
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