My Australia trip.....Fun Fun Fun!!! Day 6

As we struggle through the wonderful breakfast at our B&B, I was already dreaming about the wines I am going to taste at the vineyards at the Mornington Peninsula. We thank John for the nice breakfast and wonderful stay and make our way up to Dromana to check out the big information center there.

We were wondering about the post cards on the colourful beach houses when we saw them on the beach!!! so sua ku.... Did not realise its an in-thing to paint all the storage houses along the beach in bright colours....

Check out the wine selection from the Mornington Peninsula!

After checking our directions and inputting the address into Susan (but she still got us lost as she had no updated map), we were on our way to the vineyard of T-Gallant and Montalto. We were the first customer at T-Gallant. I started on a few whites (pinot in particular) and progress to the red. However, as the guy who served me was not very inviting, I settled on a bottle of Moscato called Juliet. Its a bit on the sweet side which I prefer.

The experience at Montalto was much better as we were greeted by a joyful guy named Justin. He showed much enthusiasm while he brought me through many award winning wines by Montalto. I was rooting for a riesling but was soon convinced that the Chardonnay is the best tasting one. We spent a good 45 mins or so doing the wine tasting and chatting about life. Truly enjoyable and I wished I could have brought back another few bottles...... well, the good news is i can order online and they send the bottles over to Singapore! 3 cheers for that!!

I drove through the long highways after the wine tasting feeling like the road was so long... hahaha....... After quite a long time,with a short break of Kentucky lunch (which tasted almost the same as Singapore's version), we arrived at Philip Island, a.k.a Penguin Island!

For Philip Island, the official recommendation would be to do their 3 attractions of Churchill Island, Koala Conservation Centre and the Penguin Parade. Of course, there is also the Nobbles, where you could see thousands of seals.

We skipped the Churchill island as that is more for trekking stuff. The Koalas were cool although they are quite hard to spot and very far away bar a few. Koalas are really cute animals though..... We got a few photos of one super close to us. :)

We did a quite check in to our Apartments at Glen Isla and made our way to the Nobbles; hoping to catch a sight of the famous seals and the so called Blow hole. The seals were all lost at sea unfortunately while the hole is there though..... hahhaaa..... Nice views on the whole.....

After that, its the big highlight of the day as we proceed to the Penguin Parade! The penguins would come back as the last light goes out, after a hard day out at sea fishing. They are very cute when they reach the beach and try to gather enough courage to climb up the beach to their home. They will move forward and then rush back to the sea when in fear, until finally, they managed to go into the bushes. Then they will start crowing andd screaming for attention. Very very interesting!!!

After watching the penguins for a good hour or so, we went to had a Chinese Dinner as we somehow missed chinese food after 6 days. hahahaa.... Never happened before but maybe getting old liao.. .... And then we went back to the apartment feeling happy and contented for a wonderful day ending with the show of the amazing Fairy(Little) Penguins.... day after day they did this for hundreds of years....