We visited the Forest Caves. You can only visit them at low tide, otherwise the water is too high.. The 300m walk along the beach from the car park to the caves revealed a treasure trove of flotsam and jetsam. The kids thoroughly enjoyed beach combing, even though most of what we found was cuttlefish of all shapes and sizes. We found 2 dead weedy seadragons. I have always wanted to see these in the wild and while I was sad to find these 2 dead ones, it was amazing none the less. We also found a dead peguin :( (and we found a dead seal on another beach on the Island :( )
A weedy seadragon
The view to the caves
It was fun to go inside the cave and explore
We visited The Nobbies, which is the point of Phillip Island where you can see a seal colony on an off shore island. We could spot them through the zoom lens of our camera but they were fairly small and not too clear (we need a camera lens that doesn't have moisture/mould in it). There are also man made penguin nests all around this headland and penguins do come there to roost at night. Unfortunately, they close off the road to The Nobbies before sunset. It is claimed that this is to help protect the penguins, and I am sure this is true in small part, but the cynical part of me believes that it is to force everyone to pay the pretty exhorbitant fees for the privilege of seeing the penguins. I remember seeing the penguin arrival 20+ years ago and it was an amazing site, but on principle we decided not to pay for the nightly parade. We visited The Nobbies a second time, staying until close to dusk, and were rewarded with the site of early arrivals hiding under the boardwalks.
I've made the photo above and below large in the hope that people might be able to enlarge the photos to see the seals. In the top photo they are all the "sticky-uppy" bits on the front rock. In the bottom photo they are all over the beach and rocks
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