Melbourne to Philip Island

I promise to keep this brief but it’s hard because after Thailand we thought it couldn’t get better and the weather surely could only be wet. But the sun shines, it seems, on the unrighteous too and haven’t we been lucky.

 

Getting round Melbourne on the tram is free and easy – and when I say easy, there’s no timetable and the drivers just gets in and out at will, helping tourists find their way about. But it’s a nice, very ordered city with much to see. Even better if you’re there at the same time as the Open.

There’s a bloke called Federer somewhere in the background. This really was a dream come true for Heather! Yeah right. It was just fantastic and a bit of an upset to see Roger go out.

And so from Melbourne we head for Sydney with Philip Island our first stop. Our day is almost impossible to describe and really has to be one of those very special ones we will remember always. We went to the Island ostensibly for the Penguin Parade and that really was wonderful but the visit to see the koalas, Nobbies blow hole (don’t ask or make up your own jokes!) and so on was very expensive on the old camera cards.What a wonderful start to the Aussie part of our trip,