Fab few days

We've been having a lot of fun in the last few days. We had a wonderful long weekend away at Phillip Island, about two hours south of Melbourne. We stayed right by the beach and although the weather was (for the first time since we've been here) a bit iffy, Thea still managed to frolic in the sea quite happily, pretending to be a 'sea creature' for hours on end. But the top stuff was the wildlife: we visited a koala sanctuary where you toddle round a boardwalk up high enough to be able to see the little fellas at the top of the trees really well, and we went to the famous penguin parade one evening. You go to a certain beach at the end of the island where there's a colony of fairy penguins. Every night just after sunset they come waddling up the beach in little groups, and head up the hill to find their burrows. It was pretty magical being on the beach under the stars and being able to observe such endearing creatures at such close range. Thea was spellbound. Dulcie slept through the whole thing. Annoyingly our camera was totally out of charge for the whole weekend, so I've borrowed acouple of pics off the net to give you an idea.