Phillip Island

Cabin's backyard.  A note on the back door warns to watch out for snakes and spiders.  With luck, we only ran across one spider, a Huntsman, which happened to be hanging in the breaker box dead.  

Melanie, Joelle's friend from Vancouver, joined us for 5 days before heading to the Great Barrier Reef to scuba dive.

  

Ben discovered lots of crabs and worms under the rocks. 

At the Nobbies, it was extremely stormy with high winds and lots of rain.  Ben wouldn't even get out of the car.  The power got knocked out in the cabin for a while and windows got blown out of the neighborhood corner store.  We missed the pelicans and the "Penguin Parade" because of the storm- we'll just have to come back.  

Mum and her bubs.  There were thousands of these seagulls on the banks looking over their young.

Surfing at Smiths Beach on Phillip Island was a delight!  The weather had changed for the better the next day. Ben didn't like Papa going in the water and cried a lot while he was out.  Next time, Ben may need to give it a go himself- we'll have to find him a wetsuit and life-vest.

Cape Woolamai