📍 Phillip Island

1️⃣ Stop: Cowes

The town is very lively, there are many restaurants, go down to the beach can see a pier, there are several grandpa fishing 🎣

2️⃣ Stop : Nobbies Point

You can walk along the long wooden boardwalk, never seen so many seagulls, occupy the entire hillside; So the Scissorbirds (the name I gave them) can only nest in one place; And the Pacific goose that shouts from time to time. The black rock is the habitat of seals, so it is also called leopard rock.

3️⃣ Stop : Penguins return to the nest

The smallest Penguin in the world (about 30cm tall and 1.5kg in weight) is called "Little Penguin". Because the feathers are Blue, they are also called "blue penguins".

The place to watch the Penguin Parade is Summerland Beach on Phillip Island, which is a wildlife nature reserve, in addition to small penguins, kangaroos and lizards can be seen.

The chicks go fishing during the day and return to the nest together at sunset. Recently, the first penguin landed at about 8:30, the staff will count the number of small penguins from the beach every day, but did not expect that the statistical method is to look at the naked eye with a telescope, and then count.

Viewing the shore stand is divided into normal (adult $30) priority ($75) underground stand ($85), the normal stand is on the beach, you can hardly see, the guide said the chicks prefer to disembark on the rocks, because it is safer.

But you can go to the boardwalk and watch them go home! A wave after a wave, the little penguin sniffing, shaking and walking, really lovely wife! Looks good to heal.

Because the little penguins are sensitive to light, there will be staff on the boardwalk to remind them not to shoot, and the last picture is from the official website.

The penguins return to the nest later in the summer, and we predicted that the penguins would come ashore at 8:45pm. 8:10 Walk from the boardwalk to the beach, all the way to the sunset sunset, very lucky to see two wild wallabies on the road.

Wait until the sky all dark down about 9 o 'clock to see 2 little penguins first landed left and right to investigate the route, up and down to the sea, and finally came to 10 or so together into a row of small teams, wobbling began to walk on the beach to walk home. It was so cute. We sat on the beach near the entrance to their home. We had a good view.

When the penguins come ashore and return home, it is only for the purpose of this trip, while the sun goes down, and the coastline of Bass Strait is beautiful at all times.

Finally, when the penguins return home, the docents said that they do not necessarily go back and forth the same day, sometimes they may swim to New Zealand, to see them go home a wave of cheering look inexplicably want to shed tears, when the mother is too strong, the little penguin and the penguin mother may wait for many days did not wait for the father to come back, that should be more sad.

After seeing the first wave of land, you can gradually go back, and on the way back, you will see many little penguins on the edge of the plank road. No photos allowed. Put an official picture.

The sanctuary is well protected and observed, and records are kept every day of how many chicks have returned home. A penguin doll wearing a sweater was found at the entrance to the park, and the docents said that because the sea was polluted by oil, they were worried that the penguins would be poisoned by cleaning their greasy feathers, so the park gave the injured penguins a sweater.