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Phillip Island Visit
Jan. 19th, 2022 11:53 pmLast weekend featured was a visit to Phillip Island, one of many holiday destinations a short trip from Melbourne city. This particular trip was with, and for, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lei_loo who rather relished the idea of a short holiday away before getting back into university studies and of course has an impending birthday. It made for a very good combination of justifications for me to wrench myself away from my own work and studies. The island, of course, is rather famous for its native wildlife with swamp wallabies spotted on the first evening, after a rather playful game involving strong winds, seagulls, and fish-and-chips at the San Remo beach. The following evening was a visit to the famous evening parade of little penguins, where more than 1100 waddled past us, along with a bandicoot, and another swamp wallaby interrupting the introductory speech for good measure. Further, a daytime visit to the quite impressive Wildlife park including close encounters of the feeding kind to more free-range and very laid-back wallabies, indifferent wombats, a well-behaved cassowary, a flock of drumming, and rather forward emus, cautious Cape Barren geese, and a very charming kangaroo with a joey.
There was some fun for the two-legged animals as well, including the pleasures of a midnight picnic overlooking Western Port as a full moon danced on the water's surface (which, so romantically, led to a discussion of Philippine outrigger ferries at scale and the Carrington Event), multiple visits to different beaches for a bit of a dip, and even a visit to the Go-Kart track which, quite charmingly, is a reduced-scale version of the neighbouring Grand Prix track. I may have been a bit bored by the second lap, but apparently still managed to post surprisingly good times. It must have been the imagining that it was a game of Supertuxkart that kept me going. Somehow I also managed to finish number 1 for the diamond league in Duolingo whilst on holiday as well (although I had plenty of opportunities as lei_loo played Ingress). With the holiday over, I am "recharged" (I took a day's "pandemic recharge leave") and rather enjoying getting back to work.
lei_loo who rather relished the idea of a short holiday away before getting back into university studies and of course has an impending birthday. It made for a very good combination of justifications for me to wrench myself away from my own work and studies. The island, of course, is rather famous for its native wildlife with swamp wallabies spotted on the first evening, after a rather playful game involving strong winds, seagulls, and fish-and-chips at the San Remo beach. The following evening was a visit to the famous evening parade of little penguins, where more than 1100 waddled past us, along with a bandicoot, and another swamp wallaby interrupting the introductory speech for good measure. Further, a daytime visit to the quite impressive Wildlife park including close encounters of the feeding kind to more free-range and very laid-back wallabies, indifferent wombats, a well-behaved cassowary, a flock of drumming, and rather forward emus, cautious Cape Barren geese, and a very charming kangaroo with a joey.There was some fun for the two-legged animals as well, including the pleasures of a midnight picnic overlooking Western Port as a full moon danced on the water's surface (which, so romantically, led to a discussion of Philippine outrigger ferries at scale and the Carrington Event), multiple visits to different beaches for a bit of a dip, and even a visit to the Go-Kart track which, quite charmingly, is a reduced-scale version of the neighbouring Grand Prix track. I may have been a bit bored by the second lap, but apparently still managed to post surprisingly good times. It must have been the imagining that it was a game of Supertuxkart that kept me going. Somehow I also managed to finish number 1 for the diamond league in Duolingo whilst on holiday as well (although I had plenty of opportunities as lei_loo played Ingress). With the holiday over, I am "recharged" (I took a day's "pandemic recharge leave") and rather enjoying getting back to work.
