City Tour & Penguin Parade Tour

Woke up late this morning but was able to board the coach in time. It was a pleasant City Tour, we visited a garden, a memorial and drove around the city sightseeing with the driver/tour guide briefing us the history of certain building that come across. Next was the Penguin Parade Tour. There were too many tourists for this tour so the management had to get another coach, a double decker coach, & we got to seat on the top deck. The Penguin Parade is located at Phillip Island but before the coach would reach there, it made a stop at Warrook Cattle Farm, a place for tourists to feed and touch kangaroos. We took several photos with the kangaroos, ducks and goats. The photos of goats were taken behind a fence as they are separated with the kangaroos and the ducks. Next was to Phillip Island, we went to Koalas Conservation Centre and got to see koalas They are cute little fellows. Sadly we were not allow to touch the koalas not even to shake the branches. However, my girlfriend got to touch 1 of the koalas while it was within our reach and was told by the keeper not to do so....^^;; Next was the Penguin Parade, the penguins there are the tiniest in the world, only about 12 inches in height. We were not allow to bring any cameras to take the penguins as the flash lights would frighten them. The parade is basically a daily routine on how the penguins swim upshore from their fishing trips, emerge from the ocean and cross the beach to their sand dune burrows. They always swim upshore after nightfall, to avoid sharks and other predators. The management built a wooden path for tourists to follow the penguins side by side as they move inland. This month is their fishing trip month so not many penguins swim upshore, only around 100+. We were told that the no. could reach up to 400+ during Christmas season. Before we moved on to a town COWES for dinner, 1 coach break down, tourists on that coach was transferred to ours. By the time we returned back to the city, it was already 11pm, next morning will be Mt Buller and departure time is at 6.45am, gonna sleep now!
posted by Estan @ 10:40:00 PM (GMT+08:00).