This has been the shortest summer I have ever see. It was 28 one day last week, but that was it. Back to highs around 15, lows at 5. My thermal underwear is getting a real workout.
George, our GPS, is still on strike. It is amazing how dependent one gets on these gadgets. We went to Philip Island, which is about a two hour drive south of Melbourne, but you have to drive right through the city. The GPS kept telling us we were on a non-existent highway. The map showed us in the middle of a field. Luckily I had checked our route, on the iPad, using Google maps, and I had written out the directions. Coming home was more fun, no Google maps.
It was a lovely day, although there were some showers, and a cold wind.
Philip Island reminded us of PEI. It's not as big, only 29 by 9 km, and it has a more rugged shoreline, but the same green hills, fertile farms, and isolation. It is the most southerly point of the mainland. South, in the distance, is Tasmania.
It is now a nature preserve, and noted for its wildlife. There is a colony of small penguins, that, every night, returns from a day of feeding in the ocean. So at dusk there is a parade of little penguins, that come on the beach, and waddle by the tourists, to their nests. We saw the same thing in New Zealand. It's quite a sight.
There are also two seal rocks, about a kilometer offshore. It is the largest seal colony in Australia. There are 16 000 seals. Today 15996 of them were on holidays, and I'm not sure whether we saw the other four. Even with good binoculars it was a bit misty, but I think we saw four lying on the rocks.
There are lots of birds, such as herons, pelicans, and others, that we had no idea of what they were.
The scenery was lovely. Rocky shorelines, green hills, very pastoral.
Made we want to get out of the car, and run naked through the fields, anything to get away from George and his "recalculating"
George, our GPS, is still on strike. It is amazing how dependent one gets on these gadgets. We went to Philip Island, which is about a two hour drive south of Melbourne, but you have to drive right through the city. The GPS kept telling us we were on a non-existent highway. The map showed us in the middle of a field. Luckily I had checked our route, on the iPad, using Google maps, and I had written out the directions. Coming home was more fun, no Google maps.
It was a lovely day, although there were some showers, and a cold wind.
Philip Island reminded us of PEI. It's not as big, only 29 by 9 km, and it has a more rugged shoreline, but the same green hills, fertile farms, and isolation. It is the most southerly point of the mainland. South, in the distance, is Tasmania.
It is now a nature preserve, and noted for its wildlife. There is a colony of small penguins, that, every night, returns from a day of feeding in the ocean. So at dusk there is a parade of little penguins, that come on the beach, and waddle by the tourists, to their nests. We saw the same thing in New Zealand. It's quite a sight.
There are also two seal rocks, about a kilometer offshore. It is the largest seal colony in Australia. There are 16 000 seals. Today 15996 of them were on holidays, and I'm not sure whether we saw the other four. Even with good binoculars it was a bit misty, but I think we saw four lying on the rocks.
There are lots of birds, such as herons, pelicans, and others, that we had no idea of what they were.
The scenery was lovely. Rocky shorelines, green hills, very pastoral.
Made we want to get out of the car, and run naked through the fields, anything to get away from George and his "recalculating"
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