london bridge & portsea beach at mornington

when you visit melbourne, a lot of the locals will suggest that you take a ride to the great ocean route or visit philip's island to watch the fairy penguins. when i drew up the itinerary and included a visit to philip's island, yew lian was not too keen on it, so we dropped the idea.

i had left out the 'must see' twelve apostles because of my own experience. it is a long and winding drive to the twelve apostles, which are actually rock formations in the sea. and if you get there on a cold and rainy day - which happened to us - you do not get to see much.

the other reason i did not suggest the great ocean route was that we could see similar rock formations off the sea near portsea. there is also a london bridge at portsea.