St. Kilda

We thought we'd go to St. Kilda's Beach today, but the high winds kind of put a kibosh on that. No problem! We took our system of trams to go into that town anyway. Thank goodness we were wearing shorts (first time this trip!) because when we got there it was hot and sunny.

We walked along the boardwalk with a mission in mind. At dusk, off the end of the pier, penguins come in for the night.

We wanted to get the lay of the land and make sure we knew where we should be. While scoping it out, we saw something neither one of us ever remembers seeing before - a black swan!

While we were waiting for dusk to come, we checked out the fact that St. Kilda's calls itself the "cake capital" of the world or of Australia or of something. Yep! Pretty darn good!

It's starting to get dark and now it's very gusty and getting cold. Those shorts that we thought was a good idea during the day........now, not so much! We, and a whole bunch of other tourists, go to the end of the pier on a little walkway that we crowd onto. Then we wait.......and wait............ There is a colony of 13,000 penguins here, so the excitement builds. And this is what we saw:

This little guy and 2 of his buddies! Guess the joke's on us!