Day 5: Philips Island

Finally the day to visit Philips Island.
This is a land of penguins or they called it noobies.
Btw noobies is a small little penguins that is ard the height of 0.8m I think.

Anyway to start off with the day, we booked a Day Tour with GO WEST again.
This time round our first destination of the tour is to go to a winery.
I think the purpose of this winery is to heat up our body before going to Philips Island.

Up next, a wildlife park along the way to Philips Island.

Look at the koalas and the kangeroos.

They are cute.

Also the wombats.

After which, we went for a helicopter ride.

This ride consists of an overview of Philips Island which looks small.

This is the first time that I and Reb took the helicopter.

Fun but I believe the helicopter view at the Great Ocean Road should be even more spectacular.

Btw this helicopter ride is not included in the tour package.

Enjoy the awesome scenery!!!!

The helicopter ride just took ard 10 mins and we are off to the Noobies Center.

Yes, we are at Philips Island finally!!!

We didn't manage to enter the Noobies Center as I and Reb went around to enjoy the breathtaking scenery and the wind is so powerful that it blows our hair in all sorts of directions.

Also, we even have difficulty walking since the wind opposes our direction.

Never did we experience anything like that before in our life.

After the Noobies Center, we are off to the Penguin Parade.

By paying an extra $11, we can even have an up-close moment with the penguins.

This means we will observe how the penguins come on shore and waddle back to their burrows.

They look so lost when they first come on shore.

However no photography is allowed but memories are erected in the back of our mind.

Okay That's all for Philips Island...........

Mel Day 4: Great Ocean Road

Finally the highlight of the trip -Great Ocean Road.

Basically this is just long winding roads along the coastline but the scenery over there is spectacular and awesome!!!

Together with all those rock formations but some of the rock formations have been destroyed.

Anyway this time round, we went for a Day Tour with GO WEST.

Their service is good and the tour guide James was entertaining too.

Some pictures when going round Melbourne to fetch other passengers.

At the Aboriginal Cultural Center.

See the boomerang and the long pipe.

The long pipe is their musical instrument.

A Bells Beach.

The scenery over here is breathtaking and you can even see surfers riding on the currents.

Had lunch at Apollo Bay.

The seafood over there is very fresh and delicious.

Simply worth the trip just to have their prawns and chips.

However no pictures is taken since we are rushing for time.

Finally, reaching the start of the Great Ocean Road.

See the signboard and also the treetop house.

The treetop house is worth millions but the location wise is so lousy.

Wonder why ppl will fork out money for that.

One of the beaches along the Great Ocean Road.
Isn't their beaches sparkling clean and the water is blue???
Wonder why our Sentosa beach is like that?


This is one of the programmes that I wish they could abandon.
Maits Nest Rainforest.
You simply walk thru' the forest and see those exotic trees.
The Koalas pictures are taken from other place, not in this forest.


The 12 Apostles.
From our view, it seems that 12 apostles isn't there anymore.
I think it left around 8 or so.
So if you intend to go Melbourne, must visit soon before all these natural formations are being destroyed.

Loch Arc Gorge

Actually supposed to have a picture of London Bridge but the camera bu zhen qi and goes flat.

And this sums up the trip of Great Ocean Road before we embark on a 3hr ride back to Melbourne City.

Certainly an eventful day with all the beautiful scenery.

Definitely a-not-to-be missed attraction in Melbourne.

Damage Done for this trip: lots of beautiful memories and $105aud gone.