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Tuesday, 11 February 2025 - We begin the day at the Moonlit Sanctuary Wildlife Conservation Park.

The park focuses on Australian animals and their conservation. We will end the day looking for Blue Penguins.

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This is the ever sleeping Koala.
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A real treat is the ability to get close to a Koala. Meet Cyclops, who strangely has both her eyes.

Cal and Virginia Ann with Cyclops.
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Cal with Cyclops.

It is amazing to pet the little furry bear.
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Virginia Ann with Cyclops.

Cyclops does not mind all the attention and petting as long as she has her Eucalyptus.
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Another Koala in a favourite activity, sleeping.
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A Koala who is up and moving.
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The next treat is giving treats to a little Wallaby.

They are small Kangaroos.
Cal feeding a Wallaby and a duck looking for treats.

It was a fun experience.
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The Tasmanian Devil became extinct in Australia 3,500 years ago and now only survives on the island of Tasmania.

It is characterized by its stocky and muscular build, black fur, pungent odor, extremely loud and disturbing screech, keen sense of smell, and ferocity when feeding. The Tasmanian devil's large head and neck allow it to generate among the strongest bites per unit body mass of any predatory land mammal.
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We stop to have lunch at the Rare Hare, for 2.5 hours!!!
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The Rare Hare is a vineyard. We ate looking out huge windows at the rows of the vineyard.
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We drive to the Northern Lookout to gaze into the Melbourne Bay.

This is Rye Pier.
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Melbourne from the overlook, 45 miles away.
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We then drive back to Philips Island and the far eastern end of the island to the Nobbies.
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The government of Australia removed a small settlement of beach homes from this area to revert the land to its natural state in an effort to save the breeding grounds for the Blue Penguin and provide a habitat for the Wallaby.
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A Wallaby runs from the car when we stop to take pictures.
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This one does not seem to mind us snapping away.
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A Wallaby on the cliff's edge overlooking the sea.
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We spot a rare site, a little Blue Penguin outside its burrow. The Blue Penguin is the smallest penguin on earth.

It is a young adult penguin.
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From the car we spot a burrow with three little Blue Penguins all huddled inside.
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The rocky shore where these little penguins climb to get to their burrows,
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After dinner, we head to see the Penguin Parade where the penguins, swim out of the ocean and march up the sand to meet their chicks at their burrows in the sand dunes.

A pretty full moon followed us.
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A Blue Penguin chick stands outside its burrow chirping for mom and dad. It is hungry and time to eat.
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Two chicks with gray baby fur outside waiting for mom and dad. Once all the gray fur is shed, it is time to learn to swim and hunt for food.

All photography is banned as the little penguins emerge out of the ocean and waddle to their burrows. It is both amazing and adorable to watch.
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