Easter Holidays

I headed to Melbourne and stayed with Karin and Rick from Winnipeg, Canada. Karin is one of the fourteen fellows. We went to The Formula One Grand Prix on the Sunday. Leonard, my brother from Auckland, was unable to get his passport from Ireland so we missed out on a visit from him. Hopefully he and Denise will come over in September, but I will see them in July for a week, when I visit them. Therefore, we were able to stay in Melbourne longer than expected and Monday was spent shopping and booking tickets for Jersey Boys, Mama Mia and Des Bishop. Tuesday we went on a sight-seeing tour of Melbourne and said goodbye to Karin and Rick who were heading to Tassie for ten days. Wednesday and Thursday were spent on the famous St. Kilda Beach. The weather was in the mid-twenties but though there were quite a few on the beach, very few ventured into the water.
On Friday we visited Philip Island.
On Saturday we returned via the Sorrento ferry to Queenscliff and along The Great Ocean Road as far as Lorne. Then it was home to Warrnambool. Beach on Sunday followed by a visit to Tower Hill, a local wildlife reserve in the mouth of an extinct volcano. On Monday it was the Wildlife Park in Ballarat followed by another visit to the recreated gold mine town at Sovereign Hill and finishing with a sound and light show: 'Blood on The Southern Cross'. (more details earlier on the blog) The rest of the week was spent catching up on sleep and recharging the batteries for back to school on Monday.