My parents came to visit us during the Easter holiday this year. They stayed for only 2 weeks, but even then they found the weather here too cold to their liking.
We brought them to look around Melbourne, and since there was not much to see, we drove by the beach and stopped at a spot or two. We then visited my old Year 12 college and popped by the flats I used to stay as a first year overseas student.
We wanted to bring them to the Phillips Island to watch the penguin parade, but the cold was too much for them, so they followed my brother and sister-in-law to the Dandenongs and went cherry picking.
We were rather disappointed that the penguins did not return in droves, apparently because there were sharks just outside the island. There is also a colony of penguins in the St. Kilda piers, right near the heart of down town Melbourne.
Apart from the penguin parade we also dropped by the koala reserve. It was scary to see how human activities have decimated the breeding grounds of penguins and koala bear just a little over 100 years.
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