We have travelled to Inverloch, halfway between Phillip Island and ‘The Prom’ – Wilson Promontory.  The latter is the southernmost point on mainland Australia.  We were hoping to stay there but we couldn’t get a site at the camp ground.  We were also going to walk to the most southerly point but it turns out you had to walk 20 km, camp overnight and then hike back again.  Needless to say we have not done that.  But we did go to Phillip Island – home of the Penguin parade!  Before that we walked about 7km around Cape Woolami, Phillip Island’s most southerly point.

This is the hole of a mutton bird – short tailed shearwaters.  They live in borrows and lay one egg a year. 

Thousands come here to breed, the landscape is pitted.  When you walk on it, all spongy.

This is what they look like, unfortunately we just missed them as they all leave by April.

Here are some of the unlucky ones who didn’t get to leave!

These are granite cliffs, once intrusive rocks, which formed about 360 million years ago.  When they cooled and solidified cracks formed, as they have become exposed weathering has further sculptured the rocks.

Just look at the clarity of the water.

The Nankeen kestrel

Paul testing the water.

Speaks for itself.