Drove down to Phillip Island yesterday, South of Melbourne. If I could describe this country in one word it would be DRY! Lots of cattle and sheep on pasture but the fields are as Brown as a sideraod. Looks like Arizona in some spots. Phillip island has a refuge area of sorts for one species of penguin indigenous to the area. They are protected and no pictures are allowed so as to not disturb their daily routines. They have small burrows in the ground where the young reside. Adults leave at sunrise, gorge themselves in the ocean and return at sunset to regurgitate the food for the young. In a controlled area, seating about 500 people, we were allowed to watch them emerge from the water at dusk and struggle up the beach and cliffs back to their burrows , up to several thousand in just over an hour. One of nature's amazing spectacles. We did see some other wildlife, kangaroos and wallabys are all over the place.
On the road todayBen
On the road todayBen
