Deciding I deserved a little more time off post-december work frenzy I took my friend, Ingrid, up on an offer to holiday at Phillip Island with her, Bubsy and her family for a long weekend. Phillip Island is only approx 90 minutes drive from Melbourne and is an island of coastal scenery, wildlife & surfing beaches. It's actually based on our very own Isle of Wight, originally named 'Snapper Island' when founded by George Bass and eventually named after captain Arthur Phillip. Commander Cox thought the island resembled the Isle of Wight in England and gave it's towns similar names such as 'Cowes'. Me and the girls at home are regulars to the annual Cowes sailing events on the island so I was quite interested in its history & found it was strange but special to be able visit Cowes the other side of the world!
Staying at Ingrid's beach holiday home we enjoyed a huge BBQ when we first arrived and then took off down to Summerland beach for the famous Penguin Parade at sunset. The 'Fairy Penguins', now politically corrected to the name 'Little Penguins' due to homosexual references... can you believe it... emerge from the sea as the sun sets and waddle ashore to their sand-dune burrows! It was an adorable experience, and i brought an equally charming bobble hat decorated with penguins to remember my evening & wear back in chilly britain. I actually found out that the night after we visited, Miley Cyrus went to the very same parade as she was also holidaying on the isle, 'party in the P.I!'
The following day we drove to Cowes for ice- cream and to get a tourist snap of the Isle of Wight pub, where we later went for beers. During the day we went out on Ingrid's dads speed boat for abit of a thrill ride and some sea fishing, we caught nothing but someone else's fishing line! Unwinding with a barbie and a beer became the way of life for the days spent there, which I felt was much needed for essential falls festival-recovery. We also took advantage of the surf and caught some waves in the warming sea, this being after someone had showed me a picture of the biggest shark caught in the world in the same waters, so as you can imagine I was a little apprehensive but still keen to practice! Refreshed & relaxed we headed home back to Melbourne, feeling like I was ready to get back into the rat race & to make a start 2010.
Since being back I have picked up some new work with Zest Marketing Concepts, the team is awesome (not to mention very english) and its nice to be doing something slightly different for the time being. I have also had some of the best nights out in recent weeks, on Chapel St in the area of Prahran at 'Electric Lady Lounge' and Bar 'HooHaa', also at an alternative bar called 'Nevermind' in Hawthorn and the clubs 'Eurotrash' and 'Korova' in the city. I also joined a great gym that my housemate works at so despite the partying i have been keeping fit and healthy mum! Money is getting tight now after the christmas and new year splash, so im holding out for payday then I promise to have some more adventures to blog about...I hope you are enjoying, keep up the new year's resolutions beauties.
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