Melbourne - 22nd December 2025

We decided that we'd get an Uber from Melbourne airport to St Kilda and once we were out of the airport we found one pretty quickly.

The journey to St Kilda took around 30 minutes and we passed by the Melbourne CBD and Albert park. We got dropped off at a store to collect the key to our Airbnb and then walked the 10 minutes to the apartment.

It's located in a good position, on the corner of Canterbury road and Fitzroy. Although not on the sea front, it is next to a Woolworths supermarket, a tram stop and bars. The apartment is on the fourth floor (no lift) and had a lovely terrace.

Having arrived bag less we popped down to the supermarket to get some toiletries, milk, coffee and beer... The essentials! 🤣

Fortunately we'd both packed a spare set of clothing in our luggage and so we had a quick shower and freshen up before going for a walk towards the sea front.

By now it was almost 7pm and so we stopped at the Prince Hotel for some food, a chicken burger for me and chicken snitzel for Ed! From here we walked along the sea front, past the pier and ended up at Luna Park, an amusement park with rides and an old wooden coaster.

We retraced our steps, walking along the sea front with the sun starting to go down. The whole area was pretty busy with walkers, runners, cyclists and others just watching the world go by.

We had booked a boat tour on St Kilda ferries to go and see the penguins returning to their nests for the evening. An increasingly large colony of Little (sometimes called fairy) penguins (no more than 30cm high) have made their home in the man made breakwater. It seems to suit them very well.

As the sun went down, we could see individuals then groups (rafts) of penguins swimming towards home. After the sun went down we spent about 30 minutes cruising along the breakwater watching the penguins hop onto the land and up to their nests. There are also type of rat, the Rakali which are semi aquatic and prey on small penguins and eggs! We spotted a few amidst the rocks.

It was almost 10pm now so we headed back to the different street a long couple of days of a beer and an early night!Leggi altro