My trip to Australia, Melbourne

During this June holidays, my family and my cousin's family visited my uncle's family in Australia. We went to many places like Philip Island, the Twelve Apostles, the Koala Reserve, and many more. We also went for the Great Ocean Drive which took 6 hours before reaching the Twelve Apostles.

First, we went to Philip Island to see the penguins returning from the South. The temperature was freezing as we were sitting right before the sea. There were about 480 penguins returning to their families. After the programme, our parents went to the souvenir shop to do shopping.

The next day we went for the Great Ocean Drive heading towards out next destination: The Twelve Apostles. The night before the drive, we went to Cosco, a supermarket which is as big as Ikea in Singapore, to get snacks and food. The next day, we woke up at 5:30am to start moving all the necessary items into the van. Since all of us were so sleepy, we spent the whole journey sleeping or stopping for photographs. When we reached our destination, we had to go for a short hike up a cliff to see the view. (picture shown right) After this,we went to a koala bear reserve. We spotted 5 koalas, and one of them was quite close to us. Since it was near, my older cousin and some adults started throwing twigs at it to wake to koala from its slumber. I think one hit the koala as it started moving away from us. Next, we were allowed to feed the parrots outside a store in the reserve. We put seeds and nuts on our palms, soon many parents, ducks and pigeons flew towards us. One of them even landed on my brother's head as there were scraps of nuts on him.

After this two day drive, the last place I went was the museum. I went there because there was an exhibition of King Tut, the Egyptian boy Pharaoh. Items were brought from Egypt and the golden coffin was brought over too. Before we entered that exhibition,we went to look at others. In the human body exhibition, real organs were used to construct the body systems for us to see. The intestines were all shriveled up and yellow in colour. It was kind of disgusting to see. It was a wonderful experience.

Soon, it was also time for us to return to Singapore. I had really enjoyed my time in Australia and I really want to visit it again.