Melbourne by Night

Pin Oak Court

Here Sue and Harry stand on the edge of one of the most famous streets around Melbourne. It's called Pin Oak Court, and known in the UK as Ramsey Street.

Philip Island

We took a day out to go and see Philip Island and the Penguin Parade. There's a great koala reserve on the island and this is footage of a koala trying to down from a tree, however the koala can't because of the plastic around the trunk.

The park keepers are keen that you know that there certain things you shouldn't do to a koala. These would appear to include not touching the bottom of a koala, not shouting at them and not shaking their tree. Seems reasonable.

The other thing to be careful of when looking for Koala in trees are the things you don't see on the path in front of you. Like this little fella.

Some of the local wildlife

Sometimes the local wildlife around here can be really dramatic, and sometimes it can be quite surprised, like the Possum that sits in a tree in the driveway. The dolphin was one from a group that we swimming in the bay at the bottom of the road.

Footy

Footy is the local sport round here. Not soccer, but footy. A whole cricket pitch is used for teams to run around after a rugby shaped ball in an attempt to get a clean kick so that the ball goes between the inner of the two sets of goal post. The game is in 4 quarters and lasts over 2 hours. Those of you who know my interest levels in sport will understand that for me to volunteer to go more than once to a sporting occasion must mean that it is good to watch. Also a little note for the Pie Eater, it seems compulsory to have a Four'N Twenty at a match.

This match is at the MCG and was really close with Carlton 101 to Hawthorn 106 in the dying moments of the match. And then Carlton get to kick for goal, if they get this they win the match. Check what happened next.

The Great Ocean Road

One of the great days out around here is the Great Ocean Road. We decided to take Chris and drive to the Southern Ocean some way west of Melbourne, and return along the Great Ocean Road.

Have a look at the gallery to see some of what we did. 

We took a little too much time so by the time we were half way home it was dark. A wallaby jumped out of the darkness in front of the car, it caused a bit of a fright. But wallabies aren't as scary as the kangeroo that hopped alongside the car a bit further on. It must have been over 5ft tall.

Oh and Harry not content with eating his own dinner ate an eyeball from Chris's Red Snapper, much to the disgust of the waitress! Apparently they have a very chewy centre.

Beach Walk

This is a collection of little clips from a walk up the beach. We go from our house over the railway, over the road and then to the beach. We saw the remnants of a wedding and then when we got to the beach huts we realised there were 3 different weddings having their photographs taken.