Penguin Day!

Another weekend - yay - and we thought we'd make Saturday a penguin day!  We got a train to the city and made our way to the Melbourne Aquarium.  They have King and Gentoo penguins there, so we got to see some snow - although not as much as you have back home so we hear!  There were also, many weird and wonderful fish, jellyfish, sharks, stingrays and umpteen other sea creatures to keep us amused!  I couldn't resist popping my head up in a gold fish type thing to see the fish from the inside, as the picture shows!

We then headed to Brunswick Street in Fitzroy for some lunch before heading back to the apartment, grabbing a cake on the way, and then getting ready for a night out in St Kilda.

There is a bus that goes to St Kilda more or less right outside our apartment so it's a short trip to the hustle and bustle of trendy Acland Street.  St Kilda has a holiday feel to it and it attracts lots of backpackers so it's got a lot of great bars which are packed on a warm Winter's night!  We went for a meal at Abbey Road and waited for the sun to start setting.

At sunset we made our way along St Kilda pier to the end where there is a breakwater made of rocks.  It's here that Fairy penguins come in and find their nests in the rocks.  Unfortunately we didn't get any decent photos because flash photography isn't allowed.  Many people though do use their flashes and it's so annoying as they scare the penguins and spoil it for everyone else.  After seeing a few we made our way to the top of the rocks to get away from people fighting to get a better view.  We couldn't believe it when Darren spotted a cheeky little penguin there running along the path!

After seeing the penguins we went back to Acland Street to get the bus home, and as we were trying to cross the busy Esplanade two undercover police cars pulled a car over.  One of the most popular television shows over here is 'Highway Patrol', and when we saw the police cars I said to Darren 'I bet there's a camera crew in the second one'.  Sure enough, the camera crew hopped out, so I got my camera out too!  I was a bit scared to take close photos though incase I got arrested!!!!