Extragreen Phillip Island Tour – If you haven’t read Melbourne Day 1 yet, I highly recommend reading it to learn more about Melbourne!
We have booked all our tour packages through Extragreen and they are without a doubt the cheapest packages you can find in Melbourne. But there’s just one problem, the cheapest tours they offered were in Chinese. We’ve done well with this as we understand Mandarin, but for those who don’t, you may need to add English speaking tours as well.
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However, we have pre-booked the Ultimate package where we can enjoy 3 day tours for the price of 2! An absolute steal! We also decided to add a small chocolate factory (which you will see on day 4) and the price was only $152 per person.
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I recommend booking these tours in advance as they are in high demand and seats sell out quickly, especially if you are visiting with a large group.
We wanted something light on the first day so we decided to have our first day at Sovereign Hill – Gold Trail.
Note: We also decided to add $10 per person to visit the Ballarat Wildlife Park.
After gathering everyone, we were taken to our tour bus and left at 8 o’clock.
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This is where we were blown away because we got the chance to connect with these cutest people!
These wallabies in particular were very friendly, they would come up to us and start hunting us to see if we had food.
I’m scared of animals, but I had so much fun watching D feed them, and D, who loves animals, jumped up and down to play with them. Haha!
Koalas spend most of their time sleeping so we were very lucky to see them walking around trying to feed themselves.
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I really enjoy visiting wildlife parks in winter, as you can see, it’s an open area, I can’t imagine walking in the sun to see these animals.
They also have a variety of reptiles, which we obviously saw a lot of, but really enjoyed.
After a few hours of making new friends, we boarded the bus and headed to our next destination, or destination for the day, Sovereign Hill: the Gold Museum!
The museum recreates Ballarat’s first decade after gold was discovered in 1851 when people from all over the world rushed to this gold country in search of riches.
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I wish we had stayed until the evening for the amazing show entitled “Blood on the Southern Cross” which really brings the fascinating story of the Eureka Uprising of 1854 to life!
When we arrived, we headed to the gold smelting factory to see how gold was processed back in the day.
But it was cool to see the gold go from solid metal to molten and then back to solid gold!
It rained most of the time so it was very cold all over the place and I’m not complaining!
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We had a great time walking around the old streets and blowing the cold air out of our mouths!
It’s a fun restaurant with an old gold mining experience! We were delighted to hear this as we returned surrounded by staff dressed in Victorian clothing!
After eating a growling stomach, we continued to wander around the old street as we marveled at the beauty of the village! We even grabbed a uniformed policeman for a photo or two!
You can also buy tickets to ride horses or visit Red Hill Gully Diggings where you can hunt for real gold and keep it as a souvenir!
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It was a pity that we didn’t have enough time to do it, but if I came here again, I would take my time to see the beauty of this place without rushing!
After the underground tour, we went outside and enjoyed the beautiful views of Ballarat and Sovereign Hill one last time!
It wasn’t as crunchy as I expected, but it was very sweet and spicy!
There was so much to choose from and after one glass of every wine they had, my face was full. Haha!
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I wish I had posted our delicious ramen @ Hakata Gensuke, but I just realized I didn’t! Melbourne may seem a long way from the sport you might associate with the Greek Islands or the Whitsundays. . But here I was on a Friday afternoon, 60 km southeast of the city, taking a small boat to a remote, off-the-grid, little-known island, even the world’s biggest star could disappear . it’s dark here
That’s what middle-aged Kylie Minogue did when she moved to the French island of Victoria to recuperate during breast cancer treatment. Minogue and her boyfriend at the time, Olivier Martinez, lived in a French country house set behind stone walls on one of the few hills on the island. Sometimes they go to buy milk at the French Island General Store, the only store on the island. Locals who befriended her say Minogue has made good connections with farmers, greens, business and the left.
The French island has 116 permanent residents and about 20 koalas. I’m on the last boat of the day heading out to Stony Point on the Victorian mainland with a fifth of the island’s population. Adults return home with shopping bags, while children chatter happily as they return from their weekly ‘socialisation’ day at a mainland primary school.
Welcome party at the pier of the French Island. More than 2,000 koalas call this wildlife island home. Photo: French Island Glamping
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Fifteen minutes later, I stepped out of the stationary jet and might as well have stepped out of the time machine. Apart from the waves lapping the river and the wind from the fish, there is a tranquility here that can only be found in places with unblocked roads and very few cars – most tourists explore the island’s landscape by mountain bike .
Two thirds of the 170 km² of the French island are nature reserves. It’s home to Australia’s largest and healthiest koala (no chlamydia here, ladies and gentlemen), as well as the long-nosed portoroo and short-lipped echidna. There are more than 200 species of birds, including white sea eagles, mutton birds and black swans. But I see Australian white birds (called “chickens” in the cities) in their natural habitat, feeding respectfully in the coastal forests, which makes me very happy.
Bringing a car to the island is a very expensive hassle, so my hosts for the night, French Island Glamping, plan to do the transfer. Perched atop a hill overlooking the ocean, the camp has five canvas bell tents spread across 100 acres, offering privacy and luxury. Each tent has king-size beds, luxury linens, wicker chairs, bluetooth speakers, board games, solar lights and enough space to greet the sun. There is a public kitchen that looks like a kitchen for cooking, and after the sun goes down, the owners join guests around the fireplace and prepare marshmallows for us to toast. They tell us about the long nature walks we can take from here with oysters to the nearby beaches, and about one of their regular guests, a long-haul pilot, who likes to stay here between flights and sleep three days in a row.
That night I went to sleep to the sound of koalas fornicating (for such a shy animal, of course they are not ashamed of it) and woke up in the morning to the cries of kookaburras.
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For breakfast I go to Minogue’s old pit stop, the French Isle general store. It also has a licensed café, a post office, a tourist information centre, bicycle hire and offers accommodation and minibus transfer services. An old wooden shop, across from a paddock of well-fed cows and alpacas, is the community centre, and in the time it takes to finish my eggs and coffee, I come across the local residents’ square. the koala desk is the award-winning manager of French Island Vineyards (just give me a call, he says, if you’d like to arrange a drinking session).
French Island General Store is the only store on the 170 square kilometer island. Photo: Janine Israel/The Guardian
Next is a tour by Naturaliste Tours, whose 4×4 crawls from the tropical interior to the saltwater lagoon. The guide explains the 6,000 years of people on the island: from the indigenous Bunurong tribe who stored pepper along the 144 km beach, to the first Europeans who cultivated and burned chicory in the ovens that still exist.
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