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Today in Phillip Island Tuesday the 31st of August the temerature is Light Rain, Mostly Cloudy, Cool, Windy, 10C - 15C. Tommorow however is Numerous Showers, Mostly Cloudy, Cool, Breezy, 8C - 13C. On Thursday it shall be Mostly Sunny, Cool, 8C - 13C. So as I can see in the three weather forcasts, The weather changes quite alot.

Five Attractions - 5 Pictures and paragraphs

Penguin Parade. Enjoy watching the penguins in their natural habitat from general viewing stands and boardwalks. The Penguin Parade is Australia’s most popular wildlife attraction and home to the largest Little Penguin colony in the world. Every sunset, the hundreds to over a thousand wild Little Penguins come from the sea and march across the beach to their sand dune burrows.The Little Penguin is the world’s smallest (and cutest) penguin and the Penguin Parade is the best place to experience this.

Koala Conservation Centre. Stroll through bush land and enjoy koalas in their natural habitat on our treetop boardwalks. Walk amongst the treetops and see wild koalas on 2 boardwalks: the Koala Boardwalk and Woodland Boardwalk. Enjoy the bush walking tracks, look out for wallabies, echidnas, birds and other Aussie wildlife. Learn about the amazing lives of koalas in the interactive Visitor's Centre. Browse for unique gifts in their giftshop. Relax and enjoy a meal or snack in their cafe.

Churchill Island.

Cross the bridge to experience our historic buildings, heritage gardens and working farm with animal nursery.They have daily farming actvities - cow milking, blacksmithing, sheep shearing and working dog demonstrations. Visit the adorable baby animals in their nursery.You can buy some birthday gifts at our farm house. They have a great cafe and the veiw it great it is a veiw of all the farm animals.

Nobbies Centre. Entry is free. Only five minutes drive from the Penguin Parade.They also have a lovely cafe, outlooking the beautiful veiws you can enjoy your coffee. Using there special Seal camara you can take home and frame some beautiful photos of these seals. Stroll free boardwalks. Keep a lookout on the boardwalks for nesting birds and Little Penguins. Shop for gifts in our gift shop. If the kids start annoying dont worry they have a 'just for pups' children's area.

Wildlife Coast Cruises Stroll along the Nobbies boardwalk to view the majestic rugged south coast and blowhole. See the Southern Hemisphere's largest fur seal colony. Seal tours with Wildlife Coast Cruises are available on the luxurious 19mtr catamaran "The Kasey Lee". There is four different Cruises such as: Seal watching cruise, Twilight Cruise, Cape Cruise and Market Cruise. [|wildlife_coast_cruise.jpg]

Phillip Island Chocolate Factory Dicover the world of chocolate. Situated in Newhaven near the Phillip Island Visitor Information Centre. When you arrive at the Phillip Island Chocolate Factory you will be offered one of Pannys 'secret recipe' White Truffles. There is nteractive Chocolate Machines to play with. Once your there you are guarenteed to fall in love with something! They also let you make your own chocolate on the spot!

﻿Fauna / Wildlife ﻿Seals seals always grow whiskers. They never stop growing! The seal sweeps its upper lip up and down, using these sensitive whiskers to detect fish in murky waters. Seals have very good vision in water. There eyes must see in air and water so is very big and round. Seals have a good sense of smell in air, so they can smell there preditors. Females also use smell to recognise their pups on big beaches were lots of females are feeding thier pups. While swimming the nostrils are kept tightly shut.

Penguins Once a year the penguins sing a song to get a mate to like them. The male penguin calls a low rumbling sound.The Fairy Penguins in Phillip Island live in burrows. These penguins don't live in the snow and ice like most penguins do. When theyre babies the parents take in turns to nest them. When it is dark they come out of the water and go to the beach. They do that because most of there pedators are asleep.

Koalas Koalas live for 12 to 16 years in the wild. Koalas are not bears. Koalas are marsupials, like kangaroos and wombats. As you have probably noticed all of these animals have pouches they keep their babies in. Koalas spend approximately 20 hours asleep or resting, one to three hours feeding, and one to three hours grooming, moving from tree to tree, and during the breeding time they're searching for a mate.

Kangaroos

The gray kangaroo and the red kangaroo are the largest kangaroos. They can stand as tall as 2 meters and weigh as much as 85 kilograms. The smallest kangaroos are the musky rat-kangaroos. They have long tails like rats. Rat-kangaroos are as small as 30 centimeters, not including the tail. Kangaroos use their big back legs and thick tail for hopping. The hind legs of the red kangaroo are about ten times the size of the small front legs.

Wombats Wombats live in Australia. Their babies live in their mum's pouch for 6 months. They dig dens with their sharp claws, and they eat plants at night, they stay in a den in daytime. Wombats are marsupials and they grow up to about a meter long. They're big and fat and they are hairy so they can keep themselves warm when they're in their den. If the mother decides to dig a den with their babie in there puch they learn how to do it a special way with there claws so the dont get one little bit of dirt in there.

<span style="color: #ffba00; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">﻿History of Phillip Island For thousands of years Phillip Island has been the home to indigenous people. The indigenous people called the island "Beang Gurt". When that happend Phillip Island still would have been attached to Australia, because of the sea levels.

Phillip Island was discovered by George Bass in January, 1798. Bass went to Westernport Bay on a journey from Sydney in a flat-bottomed boat, to see if there was a strait between Australia and Tasmania. That strait is today named after him. He came back with Matthew Flinders, they then named the island "Snapper Island". A stone is now placed where they landed in Rhyll. The French came and they were again exploring in the area in 1826, so Governor Sir Arthur Phillip sent a small group of soldiers and convicts to Western Port to take over. The settlement was left alone in 1828 and seals used the area until the 1840s when most of the hunters left the area. In 1842 two Scottish brothers, William and John McHaffie (the first settelers) took up the island with a lease that covered it. They took out a Pre-emptive Right Lease to occupy "Waste Lands of the Crown known as Phillip Island". The McHaffies started to light a fire that burnt for several days. They then swam cattle across the low water and established pastoral runs. The land then came up for sale by the McHaffies'. The land was sold, but the people that then bought it thought the fresh water was scarce, and plagues of caterpillars drove people away. By 1902 the population had dropped to just 50. Gradually farmers came back to the island, and by the 1870's more than a one hundred and sixty people called Phillip Island home. Some of the main jobs were brickmaking, ship-building, oyster-getting, fishing and gathering of mutton-bird eggs. Today the island's economy is common for the tourism. Now, there is alot of sheep & cattle and the population is around 7,500. The island gets about 3.5 million visitors a year, about half come to see the night of the Penguin Parade, which has many Little Penguins crossing the sand at Summerland Beach. To take care of the wildlife the **Phillip Island Nature Park** was built in the late 1990's.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Here is a Map! [] Just copy and paste that into you adress box at the top of your screen or you can just click on it. Which ever one works for you is fine. || <span style="color: #ff6d00; display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">﻿Some of the main towns and beaches **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Towns: ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Cape Woolamai **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Cowes **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Grantville **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Inverloch **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Newhaven **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Rhyll **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">San Remo **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Ventnor ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Summerlands ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Ventnor ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Newhaven ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Cape Woolamai ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Sunderland Bay ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Wimbledon Heights ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Silverleaves ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Beaches: ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Surf beach ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Cowes Beach ** **Woolamai Beach** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Smiths beach **
 * There is a map of Phillip Island!!

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These are some of the ways you can get to Phillip Island:

Car - If you want just the usual. Plane - If your in a rush. Bus - If you want to be like us or dont have a car or liscence. Motorbike - If you would like some fresh air. Boat - If you like the sea and like a peaceful journey. Ferry - If your up for something a little bit different. Horse and Carrage - If you want to do it old school.

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