Melbourne Day 3 : Guided tour to the Maru Koala and Animal Park, KoalaConservation Centre, Penguin Parade Philip Island

My third day in Melbourne brought me out to the outskirts of the city where I booked a three day tour with this Chinese agency; Evergreen.(Recommended by ZhaoFa, thank you!) I paid for 3 days worth of tours (one day was just half day) for around AUS150. With that amount, I could only do one day tour with anyone on klook or any other apps. I think the main difference was that the group size was twice bigger and they spoke Chinese, but if you are fine with that, I would highly recommend to opt for them too. Since I had to report at around 10 ish, I headed down to where I lived and decided to try out Metro Burgers for breakfast. Led by a pair of Asian father daughter duo, the breakfast item I had was not too bad!

I had this vegetarian set, sorry I can't remember the name and price of it anymore but look at that mushroom! The portion was rather huge for me, I halved it and had it packed for dinner.

I hopped over to Uniqlo and bought heat tech before I joined the tour. Best decision made.
I totally packed for the wrong weather and did nothing to prep myself for 16 degree celsius summer in Melbourne. By that I mean like I legit brought all summer clothing, not even a cardigan. & because the whole city was also preparing for summer, there isn't much choices for the cool weather. Thankfully there is uniqlo and I got myself a set of heat tech for the trip.

We started off the tour by visiting the Maru Koala and Animal Park, where we were given a printed picture of me and the koala ( and i left it in the bus i forgot to take fml) It's a like home run animal park but good enough to mingle with the native animals.

Look ma, a white kangaroo!

The friendly staff was telling me how rare it is to have a white kangaroo and it is not albino.

Alpacas

" you have a prob bro? do you?"

Some shots along the way to the next location, Koala Conservation Centre at the Philip Island.

Drop by the Nobbies Ocean Discovery Centre for dinner. (with a view)

I would suggest to pack your own dinner there cause food is quite expensive, I didn't buy any food from the centre cause noobster me cannot finish half my breakfast the shopkeeper ask me to dabao and I dabao-ed for dinner wtf.

Went out to catch the strong breeze and take a series of unglam self portraits

And off we go to the highlight of the day, Penguin Parade!

Actually no photography, but I thug Asian.

& because imma graduate on a budget, I opt for general viewing and not the VIP seating. By the end of the day I realised that there's actually not much difference in terms of the viewing of the penguins unless feeling rich.

Brought a cookie and a hot chocolate to curb the cold #thankgodforHEATTECH.


Apart from the freezing wind, I think all is well and the penguins were so cuteeeeee.

That pretty much sums up my third day in Melbourne as we embark back to the city area and rest for the day.