A delicious breakfast followed: muesli with yoghurt, home-made bread and cookies, fruit, and plenty of coffee. Then before we knew it we were back on the road. Our first stop for the day was Port Fairy - very cute name, but not a lot going on.
We took a quick walk along the riverbank where there were some beautiful houses and hotels, and then jumped back in the car to continue our journey to our next booked hotel in Colac, which is a town on the way back to Melbourne. It soon became clear however that all of the towns along the Princes Highway were completely dead and not worth a visit. Plan B came into action and we decided to head straight to St Kilda, where we had some accommodation booked thanks to Dave's old school friend, Simon, stopping at Melbourne's open range zoo: Werribee.
Included in the price of the entry ticket is a safari tour across the grassy plains of the 225 hectare zoo where you come in close proximity to hippos, giraffes, zebras and the like. The highlight of this was probably seeing a hippo mark it's territory: that is, having a shit, and spraying it everywhere with his tail. Lovely. After this, we walked around the rest of the zoo. Typically, all of the animals were hiding and we barely saw anything but, luckily, we did get to have our photo taken with a very friendly kangaroo, which made Dave's day as he is constantly going on about them.
We arrived in St Kilda at about 5pm and booked into yet another hostel. This time we were in our own double room, which was okay, but a bit smelly as it was next to a toilet, and backpackers seem to have the biggest poos: it must be their bad diet. Simon (Dave's friend) kindly booked us tickets to go with him and his friends to see Arj Barker of Flight of the Concords fame at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.
We arrived in St Kilda at about 5pm and booked into yet another hostel. This time we were in our own double room, which was okay, but a bit smelly as it was next to a toilet, and backpackers seem to have the biggest poos: it must be their bad diet. Simon (Dave's friend) kindly booked us tickets to go with him and his friends to see Arj Barker of Flight of the Concords fame at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. After a yummy and bargainous $9.50 dinner at a restaurant called Thai Power we headed into the city for a few drinks and the show. Arj Barker is possibly the least funny comedian I've ever come across, I must have laughed once throughout the whole show, and looking back, even that joke wasn't very funny: something to do with snakes just being one long neck...?!
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