Before I left an awful lot of people said "You're going to Melbourne? You have to go to Phillip Island to see the penguins." Those people were wrong.
On the way there I stopped at a self-styled koala sanctuary. I've been to more depressing places but they've generally been genocide memorials.
Phillip Island itself was ace: brutal coastlines and a whole heap of wallabies. Went to the Nobbies where there was essentially a penguin council estate. Lots of penguins living in artificial burrows.
The Penguin Parade (note the capitals) itself was somewhat depressing. I'm guessing that the marketing team went for Penguin Parade as "tiny, terrified birds walking across a beach in the dark whilst getting disorientated by shrieking dunderheads" just didn't have the same ring. Still, cool to see wallabies. 
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