Day 5 - Gippsland
After leaving Bairnsdale, we spent an absolutely brilliant day seeing the finest of Gippsland -- Wilson's Promontory National Park, and Phillip Island, for its world-famous Penguin Parade
November 25, 2004

001-JoanBruce Joan & Bruce Downes, on the morning of Thursday, November 25, 2004, just before we left their home in Bairnsdale 002-DadMomJoeyAngieJoanJaredBruce Dad, Mom, Joey (Angie's fiancee from Texas), Angie (one of Bruce & Joan's daughters), Joan, me and Bruce 003-Cat The neighbour's cat that seemed to have adopted Bruce & Joan 004-Distances Is it mileage in Australia, or kilometerage? Seriously, it's a good question, and I know the answer :-) 005-WindmillsRoad Windmills visible on the hill in the distance in South Gippsland 006-TooraWindFarm Toora Wind Farm 007-WilsonsProm The hills of Wilson's Promontory National Park in the distance 008-Cow Lone cow 009-SilcocksHillLookout Silcock's Hill Lookout, near the wind farm, overlooking the South Gippsland coast, Waratah Bay & Wilson's Prom 010-Hillside Steep Gippsland hillside 011-CentenaryLookout Centenary Lookout, again near the wind farm 012-Hillside Verdant hills 013-Hillside Hillside 014-BarbedWireWindmills Barbed wire and windmills 015-GrazingCows Grazing cattle 016-Windmill Wind turbine 017-SouthGippsland Beautiful South Gippsland 018-Windmill Wind turbine 019-Windmill Toora Wind Farm 020-Sheep Grazing sheep 021-SheepWindmills Sheep and windmills 022-SouthGippsland South Gippsland 023-KangarooEmuSign In Wilson's Promontory NP, we saw this awesome road sign ... when we hopped back in the car, Mom said, 024-WilsonsProm Wilson's Prom 025-Path Path to Whiskey Beach 026-WhiskyCreek Whiskey Creek 027-SandyPath Sandy path 028-WhiskyBeach Whiskey Beach ... not a bad place for lunch, if you ask me 029-WhiskyBeach Whiskey Beach 030-WhiskyBay Whisky Bay 031-Mom-WhiskyBay Mom, wading in Whiskey Bay 032-Mom-WhiskyBeach Mom on Whiskey Beach in Wilson's Prom 033-WhiskyBeach Whiskey Beach 034-Rocks Rocks 035-WhiskyBeach Whiskey Beach 036-WhiskyBay Whiskey Bay 037-WhiskyBay Whiskey Bay ... this is one of my favourite photos from my semester abroad 038-Boulders Boulders at the beach 039-Mom-Boulders Mom loves rocks ... no, you can't take these home to put in your garden 040-WhiskyBeach Whiskey Beach 041-WhiskyBeach Whiskey Beach 042-RockGnarledTree A big rock beneath a gnarled tree 043-NormanLookout Norman Lookout at Wilson's Prom 044-NormanLookout Norman Lookout 045-NormanLookout Norman Lookout 046-NormanLookout Norman Lookout, and our rental car 047-NormanLookout Norman Lookout 048-Marsh Marsh 049-Kookaburra At the Tidal River campground my parents got another treat, in seeing a kookaburra in the wild 050-LaughingKookaburra Laughing kookaburra 051-LaughingKookaburra Laughing Kookaburra sitting in a tree ... they got their name from their laughing 052-GnarledTree Gnarled tree at Tidal River 053-Rosellas Rosellas 054-Rosella Rosella 055-TelegraphSaddle Telegraph Saddle, near Mount Oberon in Wilson's Prom 056-MomDad-TelegraphSaddle Mom & Dad at Telegraph Saddle 057-MomDad-TelegraphSaddle Dad & Mom at Telegraph Saddle 058-BrownSnake A brown snake stuck in a sign at Telegraph Saddle 059-MountOberon Mount Oberon 060-WarningSign Warning sign 061-SqueakyBeach Squeaky Beach 062-Jared-Boulder Me, atop a boulder at Squeaky Beach 063-Jared-Boulder Big boulders 064-Jared-Boulder It's kinda tricky climbing up rocks in sandals, but I managed to do it ... getting down was even trickier 065-Jared-LookingDown I had a great time up there surveying Squeaky Beach from above 066-Mom-SqueakyBeach Mom on Squeaky Beach 067a-SqueakyBeach Squeaky Beach 067b-SqueakyBeach Squeaky Beach 067c-SqueakyBeach Squeaky Beach 067-SqueakyBeach Squeaky Beach 068-MomDad-SqueakyBeach Mom & Dad wading at Squeaky Beach 069-MomDad-GettingWet Mom & Dad getting wet 070-MomDad-SqueakyBeach Mom & Dad, right before another wave comes in 071-Jared-Wading Yeah, my wallet and passport got a bit wet 072-Jared-WilsonsProm Wilson's Prom is my absolute favourite place in Australia! 073-SqueakyBeach Squeaky Beach 074-WaterRipples Water ripples 075-Rock Huge flat rock at Squeaky Beach 076-SqueakyBeach Squeaky Beach ... the white silica sand gives the beach its name, as it squeaks as you walk on it, it's awesome! 077-Mom-FriendlyRosella Mom admiring a friendly rosella on our car 078-Mom-Rosella Yeah, this rosella seemed intent on hopping in our car, hehe 079-SandDunes Sand dunes 080-AnzacsBeach-Woolamai Anzacs Beach at Woolamai, on Phillip Island 081-TheNobbies The Nobbies at Phillip Island 082-PhillipIsland Phillip Island 083-TheNobbies The Nobbies 084-Hillside Phillip Island hillside 085-PhillipIsland Phillip Island ... last time I was here, the tide covered all these rocks, so it's quite a different vista 086-PhillipIsland Phillip Island 087-TheNobbies The Nobbies, home to a very large seal colony ... I have no idea whose finger is pointing 088-Boardwalk A boardwalk, keeping people from disturbing all the blue (fairy) penguin holes on the hillside 089-Hillside Hillside 090-PicnicTable Dad wanted me to take a picture of this picnic table so that he could make one like it back home 091-PenguinParadeBeach The beach where the world-famous Phillip Island Penguin Parade takes place 092-PenguinParadeBeach Penguin Parade Beach 093-FairyPenguins Fairy penguins waddling up the hill 094-PenguinSign Australia sure has some great signs!

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