Day 7: IH Tour, Great Coffee and Little Penguins (Aug 17)

We started today with a familiar tour guide - Wai Bing herself! While yesterday she brought us through where she studied, this time she is taking us through the place where she stayed during her first two years.

This is the Dining Hall where generous portions of meals are served. Glad that breakfast is included in our accommodation package.

A quick snoop around the student rooms.....

On the grounds of International House.

We then headed off towards Canterbury to meet up with Wai Bing's old Uni mates - Cindy and Khio. We met at The Maling Room - known for its latte and 63 degree eggs (egg boiled at 63 degrees for 90 minutes!). Personally, I had a great chat with Pastor Philip (Khio's husband) - who is the Young Adult Pastor at Bread of Life Church. 

 

 

Off we went to Philip Island for the little penguins! Before watching the Penguins Parade (they come in about 6.00pm during winter), we had a chance to visit the Nobbies - at the tip of Philip Island where there is beautiful scenery plus thousand of seals on Rock Island - but this island is so far out that the seals are only visible via an electronic telescope which cost $5 for a 4-minute look. So, the photo of the seals below is not from our camera.

 

Above you see Eunice facing the Rock Island where the seal lives....

(Seal photos taken from the internet)

With the strict no photography or filming for the Penguin Parade, the only photo we could take is just at the entrance walking towards the beach viewing area.

Because we wanted to get the best possible viewing seat (which is to the extreme sides in front), we had seafood dinner right at the beach viewing stand while waiting for the penguins to turn up. It was marvelous to be eating seafood while watching the waves come crashing in and feel the cool breeze in your face! However, it did drizzle for a while and later on, it got heavier but Thank God that the heavier part of the rain only came in towards the end. We saw plenty of close-up penguin action as they made it back to their burrows - particularly two cuddly ones! Here we are all wet but excited after the Penguin Parade ...

Since we are not able to take any photos, here's one from the internet ...

By the time we went by home... it was pretty late. Still, our stomachs were still yearning for warm food - here's where our packed Maggi Noodle came to the rescue!