One of the attraction presented in our tour is to watch sheep shearing at traditional Australian ranch in Churchill Island. Shown is Dan, the shearer who skillfully shear sheep skin in few minutes. They can sheer up to 150 sheeps in a day! Now I know where the family name of Shearers come from! They’re…
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Koala Conservation Centre
The first place we visited at Phillip Island is Koala Conservation Centre, where we can see the Koala live in their native habitat, the eucalyptus trees. We had to walk along the boardwalk and looked at the top of the trees, found out where all these koalas are sleeping. Sleeping? Yes, they actually sleep for…
Feeding the Wallabies in Moonlit Wildlife Park
We joined a tour to Phillip Island, and before we hopped to the island, the tour brought us to Moonlit Wildlife Park, a small park outside of Melbourne. Although it was not as neatly organized as Featherdale Wildlife Park in Sydney, it has one advantage: the Wallaby Forest. It is a small forest which has…
Melbourne’s Bike Lane
Melbourne’s bike lane span across the city’s main roads. With friendly traffic along these roads and clear signage which alert car drivers for bikers, cycling really become alternative transportation mode which is healthy and safe. This will put Foke down to shame, with all of his propaganda of Jakarta’s measly bike lane.
Rod Laver Arena
This is my main destination of this morning’s cycling session: Rod Laver Arena, home of Australian Open, where all best tennis players in the world compete every year for one of the four Major titles. Hopefully I can come back here one day to watch the Australian Open. Amen.