We woke up on our final morning in St. Kilda and it was absolutely hammering down with rain outside. I don't know what has happened... it was about 38° yesterday! We all had some breakfast, checked out and then at just after 10am me and Nikki went into the city to collect our hire car for our Great Ocean Road trip. We walked down to the sea front and jumped straight on a tram.
The Tram dropped us off right outside the library and, because we were picking up the car at 1pm, we went in to use the internet. As it was a weekday it wasn't too busy so we both got to use a computer.
At just before 1pm we went to collect our car - and just like last time it was a white Hyundai Getz (but this time it's a manual). We managed to find our way back to St. Kilda and picked up Steve and the bags from the hostel and took off. The weather was getting worse - and so was the traffic.
When we managed to get out of the city, we started by heading for Pin Oak Court... which is where the film Neighbours (yep, that's Ramsey Street's real name). Unfortunately, they were filming today so we couldn't walk that far up the street. We didn't see any stars either... d'oh! Afterwards, we jumped back into the car and continued South towards Phillip Island.
We managed to get to our hostel on Phillip Island at about 6pm and after having a quick bite to eat went out to the 'Penguin Parade'. Even though it was pretty cold and windy, we still saw loads of tiny penguins coming out of the sea as the sun set. They were quite funny to watch. One or two would appear on the edge of the water, but wouldn't get out - then a couple more would arrive, but they still wouldn't get out - until a pretty large group had assembled, then they'd all make a run (well waddle) for it! The final count for the number of penguins that came out of the water tonight was 596!
Yippee... On the road again!
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