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Phillip Island! Phillip Island is 1.5 kilometres away from Melbourne! Phillip Island has a great lot of activities and attractions on offer Places near by Phillip Island are Cowes, Newhaven, San Remo and Rhyll Activities and and atractions Penguin parade:Go and watch the cute tiny loving fairy penguins of Phillip Island walk out infront of you however you can not take photos of them since the penguins are sensitive to camrea light. Amaze'n things:Go and discover Amaze'n things.You can go play on the Awesome playground then test your eyes with the wacky Ilusions. Chocolate factory: Go and treat you taste buds to the delicious and delicate hand made chocolate and while your there why don't you try their choclate coated fruit kebabs? yummy. Nobbies centre:Go and watch the seals bathe on the beach rocks while walking along the track.Then pop inside for a bit of souvenir shopping,exploring on the computers or just to eat a fancy meal or play on the indoor playground. Koala conservation centre: walk amongst the tree tops and see the wild koalas on 2 board walks.Also enjoy walking in the bush to see walabies, echidnas, birds and other aussie wildlife. Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne: The award-winning Australian Garden is a place where you can be wowed by the beauty of Australian flora, landscapes, art and architecture. Some of the activities on the grade six camp 2010 are Surfing(if the weather is okay) Archery Mountian biking Penguin parade orienteering

Phillip Island History Phillip Island is likely to be found by a European Called George Bass. George Bass was the first European explorer To visit western port on the 5th January 1798. He made his way down the Coast in a whale boat to the Bass strait Islands near the Nobbies. Phillip Island gradually got named after Captain Arthur Phillip.

Fairy penguins: Fairy penguins otherwise known as "little" penguins are known to be the smallest species of a penguin Fairy penguins are found in phillip islands penguin parade where toririst from all over the world just to dee these tiny penguins the little penguins are usualy 45 cm tall that proves how small they are. The echidna belongs to a special group of mammals called monotreme. There are only three monotremes, two of them are echidnas. The short-beaked echidna is found in Australia and the long beaked echidna is found in New Guinea. The other monotreme is the platypus. The koala is a very well known marsupial.The well known animal is foun in four states Queensland, New south wales, Victoria and South Australia.The word Koala is an Australian Aboriginal word meaning "no drink". Seals are really fasinating creatures they can be found at the nobbies along their board walk but only if youlook closely. Seals have a very fine coat of fine thick hair lonng whiskers and tiny ears. Seals eat Lobsters, Octopus, and diferent type of fish. Kangaroos belong to a group of marsupials called macropods, which means 'great footed animals'. Macropods have strong back legs with long feet. They hop on their back legs when travelling. Their front legs are small.



Weather forecasts

Friday 3rd September 16 C Saturday 2nd September 17 C : rain and windy Sunday 4th September 14 C : showers and windy Monday 5th September: shower or two Tuesday 6th September: Pa
 * Cape Woolamai** - beaches and walking tracks.[[image:fairy_penguin.jpg]]
 * Cowes** - beaches, boat ramp, jetty, playground and walking tracks.
 * Grantville** - beach, boat ramp and jetty.
 * Inverloch** - beaches, boat ramp, jetty, playground and walking tracks.
 * Newhaven** - beach, boat ramp, jetty, marina and playground.
 * Rhyll** - beach, jetty and walking tracks.
 * San Remo** - beach, pelican feeding, pier and playground.
 * Ventnor** - beach.rtly cloudy.[[image:seals.jpg width="142" height="110" align="right"]]