Australia: Melbourne here we come! (Part2)

After some city tour, it’s time for some country side. We were craving for wild life animals and my aunt brought us to Melbourne’s wildlife, Healesville. It is suppose to be like a park for animals to roam freely. To our disappointment, it’s not like what we expected. Most of the animals were actually caged and they weren’t as happy as I thought they would be. *put too much expectation* Did managed to capture some good shoots though. Here they are.

Country side with all the winery. Those are actually grape vines.

First thing that we saw of course la the famous Koala. Kept having problem and called it Panda instead. *FAIL*

The “botak” (bald) patch is not a scar, apparently they use their chest to rub on the trees to mark their territory. Wouldn’t it be better to just pee on it instead of making a bald patch on themselves?

Jumping from tree to tree,

and then continue eating. *nom nom nom*

Fact: Koala spend up to 20 hours a day sleeping and another 4 hours eating. (No wonder la they so slow motion and FAT!)

Next on, Kangaroos!

I was actually expecting those kangaroo roaming around freely, but was disappointed once again. They were kept in captivity and they got so bored with their life, they just ended up sleeping like the koalas.

One of the better shot

They are just not motivated anymore. ):

We didn’t see a kangaroo jumping, but we certainly saw a person trying to imitate it.

Got bored of the kangaroo after sometime so we went on. They even had hospital for animals.

Anyone there?

This bird has the most “cartoon” eyes I’ve ever seen! Japan anime also lose to them leh!

See what I mean? *weird looking eyes bird*

Sleepy bird.

“who’s talking about me?”

While waiting for mum to return from the T, sist had nothing better to do and start with her nonsense again.

The best has yet to come.

Tah-Dah!!

Finally when mum return, we were back to normal and went for a short bird show.

Enough of birds. We were then starving and went for BBQ. YEA!! you can cook your own BBQ in the park! They provide you electric stove and you can do your cooking there.

Before that, we saw some dingo, which look exactly like a dog!

LUNCH!

Well, not exactly BBQ, but we still had to cook the patty isn’t it? So it’s grilled burger LOH.

Chasing away the bird because it’s trying to steal food from us. =.=

Sister loves wine so we paid a visit to some winery before they close, which is 5p.m. Everything closes at 5p.m! For goodness sick. Open LAH longer, we want to have more shops to go to when the night falls! One thing I love bout their winery, they have F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C view.

I don’t mind staying in a house like this when you have …….. (continue)

When you have a view LIKE THIS!

Great view eh?

If you don’t find the pictures nice, sorry la. My skill not that “geng” (amazing) yet.

That’s all for this post. Will have one last post on Melbourne before I start with Tasmania (the place I enjoyed the most). Sorry with the over flooding of photos. I hope you guys love it. Cause obviously I LOVE THE VIEW IN MELBOURNE countryside.

Till then,

Au revoir

Australia: Melbourne here we come! (part1)

Hie peeps. I’m back from 6621KM away. It was one hell of a road trip and totally exciting. To start things off, we first dropped off at Melbourne. My uncle’s place. Hmm… Melbourne, CROWDED WITH ASIANS! Everywhere you turn, you see Asians. I was like OMG, am I in some Asian country? Before I start off with the pictures in Melbourne, here’s 2 pictures from the sky.

Please excuse my camera for having too much dust, didn’t bothered to clean it up yet.

Clouds looks like little sheep. So fluffy and white!

OK, time for pictures from Melbourne. I’ll start from the very beginning, but I’m not too sure whether I’ll remember every little detail.

Aunt & mum in the early morning.

Just in case you don’t know, Australia is 2hours ahead of Malaysia. Which means I woke up at 8a.m in the morning, it’s only 6a.m. in Malaysia. So I was actually going through my very own FML moment for a few mornings. Apart from that, Australia is currently at the end of the winter, but still with us staying in a 365 summer country, 16degress is quite cold for us.

My aunt has their very own plum tree, lemon tree, and even orange tree! They don’t really have to buy fruits when it’s the right season. And they even grow herbs! Damn Chio wer.

A very lonely dandelion.

Not forgetting to camwhore la!

It was a very chillax day so we just went to some where near, BoxHill. Which is over populated by Chinese!

Mum ate a very sour piece of pineapple. LOL

This trip, I should say that I took quite some decent photos on coffee. Everywhere I go, my first priority is a cup of hot coffee as it’s BLOODY cold out there. Had to wrap ourselves like rice dumplings. 

Our first decent meal in Melbourne was actually Vietnamese beef noodles. Taste quite good le.

Fish spring roll. Taste soooo good that I’m craving for it now.

That basically sums up first day in Melbourne. Next day we headed off to town, Queen Victoria market. Which only open 3 days a week. Before that, some pictures of my uncle’s house. They practically build the whole house on their own. *salute*

OK, enough of ridiculous picture of us. Let’s get down to business.

Skyscrapers of Melbourne

Ignore the fire hose and pay attention to “I <3 Australia” that is the focus point!

Basically, the market sells practically everything. From food, to clothes, to shoes, to accessories, to even souvenirs. Most of you guys’ souvenirs are bought here cause they are cheaper than lots of places.

After shopping for some gifts, it’s time for lunch and I had the biggest burger I’ve ever seen.

Things in Australia is not CHEAP I tell you! In my opinion, the living standard is higher than U.K

Me love fries but this fries no nice.

After lunch, I went off with sister to meet with her friend while mum went off with my aunt for some “aunty shopping”. Wouldn’t want to stay in a department store looking at toasters (don’t ask me why toaster but I just feel that is what aunty does).

Off to the streets.

Sorry bout the photos, forgot to chance the white balance so everything looks BLUE.

Meet them at Royale Arcade and “yum cha” at KoKo Black. They serve amazing hot chocolate!

Off to Yarra River next!

Layers and layers of clothes.

The photos taken from Yarra River, I did not edit. It just so happen that it’s cloudy (making it look dramatic) and the street lights are just coming on.

Pretty isn’t?

That wraps up for the night scene. Went to town on the following night for some music concert in Melbourne Town Hall. Sister got us free tickets.  

Night view of Melbourne city.

It was super cold that night and mum fell sick after that. ):

Ears were too cold therefore had to cover it up. I look like an oversized doll over here.

Headed back to BoxHill before aunt picked us up and we had nothing to do and there is where our craziness sets in.

Love my pictures? keep tuning on. will have more updates to come. Will leave the post as it is. Wouldn’t want to cramp everything into just 1 post don’t I?

Till then,

Au revoir