Wilson's Promontory

I went on a day trip to Wilson's Promontory National Park to the South East of Melbourne. It's a really quiet place and not many tourists get to go there. The only clue to its existence is one brochure kept in a locked box in a safe in the vault under the Melbourne Tourist Information building. According to our tour guide it's Melbourne's best kept secret, but that's only true if your definition of "secret" extends to encompassing things that Oz Experience know about.

Luckily the day I went was the warmest I'd seen since I'd left Sydney about a month ago, and the sunshine hit me like medicine. The animals were clearly out enjoying it too and I saw my first snake!

It was a tiger snake, and is apparently the fourth most deadly in the world. It was probably only about 2 feet long, but as the old adage says, size doesn't matter (I hear that quite a lot).

Wilson's Promontory is a haven for all wildlife, and we also saw crimson rosellas, lorrikeets, kookaburras, a wombat, the obligatory kangaroos and also a small herd of dinosaurs that I managed to snap with the zoom on my camera (check out the brontosaurus on the right! Jurassic Park!).

I also interrupted a pair of kangaroos in a compromising position, the filthy animals!