1, Date               4th(Sat) to 6th(Mon) Aug 2001
2, Main View Point    Fillip Island, Great Ocean Road, Lorne
3, Start point        Melbourne City Australia

4, High Lights

      [1st Day] Melbourne City
                  We can see some view point in Melbourne City.
      [2nd Day] Penguin Watching at Fillip Island
                  We can see penguins coming to shore from Ocean.
      [3rd Day] Great Ocean Road
                  We can see beautiful views of Great Ocean Road.
                Lorne
                  We can see beutifull harbour and Pier in Lorne Town


[Melbourne is Red Area]      




5, Members

      GP(Global Person)    :  KAWASAKI Vulcan 1500
      SM(Snow Man)         :  BMW  R1100-RT

6, Schedule

7, Mileage Traveled

	The 1st Day	The 2nd Day	The 3rd Day	Total
Mileage Traveled	45 km	480 km	325 km	850 km
Fuel Consumption	3.0 L	27.0 L	15.0 L	45.0 L
Mileage	15.0 Km/L	17.8 Km/L	21.7 Km/L	18.9 Km/L
Elapsed Time	4.0 H	13.0 H	8.5 H	25.5 H

I choose JAL by their reasons.

(3) From mid-summer to mid-winter
It was very hot days since leaving Japan. I had my jeans and short sleeves shirt. I drank some bears at JAL Sakura Range. After getting dinner.

The people from Australia are sitting on the next seat, and it addressed from my way. It was asked to the travel purpose etc., and when it was said [ "touring / motorbike" ] that it was, it was very much surprised. Although it was the Japanese version, when it was said that there was my homepage and went back, it was said that he wanted to see instantly.

Arrived at Melbourne Air Port	Cancellation Signature(Down) Reentry at Melbourne(Upper)	Highway in Melbourne City

Melbourne City	New Port in Melbourne	At a Cafe in New Port

Harbour in Williams Town	St.Kilda Bridge	Albert Park(F1 Race Road) KAWASAKI Vulcan 1500

Harbour in Williams Town (180 deg. Panorama)

Royal Botanical Garden	Cockscomb Coral-tree	Like Shinjuku-gyoen in Tokyo

[2nd Day]

The view from Point Nepean	Mr. G.P. at Point Nepean	Fortifications from the past

We could see a 360 degrees panorama seen the Antarctic Ocean at the top of the hill. I took a lot of photos for a panorama photo by the digital camera. I made a panorama photo by the PC softwear like this.

Ocean View (360 deg. Panorama)

(3) We went to Phillip Island directly.
We ran a straight to Phillip Island, and we arrived at just 17:00.
After 2 hours, it became very rainy.
Melbourne's weather is like England, so it is occasionally rainy and the clears up. We weren't wear in raincoats, but it began to rain cats and dogs so we had to put on our raincoats. When we ware standing by our motorcycles, it was raining cats and dogs. A car stopped near our motorcycles, and a man asked us "What's happened? ". We answered "No problem".
I thought that Australian people were very kindly.

(4) We arrived at Penguin Watching Centre on schedule.
We arrived at Penguin Watching Centre at 5:30 pm. It was dark. We asked to pm 5:45 entry course.
We could not enter another time for holding nature. And we could not take any photos because of the rules.

Penguin Watching Centre (It was dark after sunset)	Wearing rain coat (Cold weather; warm coat)	The small penguins copied by the pamphlet.

(5) Landing of penguins.
This area's penguins are very small (About 30cm). So their enemies attack them easily.
We could not see the penguins in the daytime. At 5:50 a loudspeaker said that the penguins were 2 Km away.
Suddenly we saw some penguins at 6:00 pm. They landed in a group. Their walking style was comic and lovely.
Their stomachs are fat because they eat a lot of fishes for their babies.
I wanted to take some photos but I could not.
Australian people keep rules.

We could see a lot of penguins, but we could not take any photos because of a rule.

It was dark after sunset,the penguin was waiting another. Ê Copied from the pamphlet of QUANTAS Air Line. Ë

(6) We came back to Melbourne.
We rode with our raincoats on in case of sudden rain on the dark road. We ran on a road in the country with no lamp.
When I rode on the north side. I saw a shooting star in the dark sky. On the north side.
It broke after shineing brightly in a long line.
It felt like the moon travels from west to east because we were on the north side of the earth.


[3rd Day]
(1)We rode through meadows.
On the 3rd day we made a long trip. We rode to west from the Melbourne side of the Ocean. We were soon in open countryside. We saw almost no big trees, but we saw some trees between fields.
We rode on a straight road through flat meadows. The freeway has no SA (Service Area) like Japanese. There were PA (Parking Areas) with toilets.
(When I went from London to Brighton in English few yers ago, there were some little shops in the PA in British freeway.)

(2)Great Ocean Road
We finially saw the sea after a long ride. I took some photos from a nice viewpoint. When we arrived at the entrance of the Great Ocean Road, I took some photos. We rode a nice long road to some good sights.
When we took a break at the seashore, we saw a sign it said "Please take your litter home". So that seashore was very beautiful.
I took a photo of many kind of stecker for sale in a shop.

Kangaroo Crossing	At View Point in Apple sea	Entrance of Great Ocean Road

Please take your Litter Home	Ocean & Mr.G.P.	Many Yellow Caution Stecker

(3)Rorne Town
We arrived at Rorne Town. We visited the Information Centre and asked about the tourist attractions. After that, we had lunch in an Italian restaurant. I noticed that almost on the restaurant workers were Italian. There are many Italian restaurants in the world. I thought that many Italians worked in many Italian restaurants in the world.

(4)Tropical Forest
We went to the Tropical Forest to see the Cafe Falls it took 15 minutes by motorcycle (4km). We stopped our motorcycles in a parking area in the Tropical Forest down a hill. We didn't go to see the Cafe Falls because it was a 15 minute walk and we had no time.
It was very humid in the forest; we saw a Harley Davidson motorcycle. Then there were 3 big motorcycles (Harley Davidson, BMW, & Kawasaki).

The Cafe Falls in Toropical Forest (3 Big Motorcycles: Harley Davidson, BMW, KAWASAKI)

{Next day}
We drove to Portland. When we were having a rest in a cafe, we saw a Harley Davidson motorcycle. The man who owned the motorcycle said "I saw you in the Tropical Forest yesterday. We remembered the Harley Davidson. But we were surprised that he knew that we had been to the Tropical Forest because we were dressed differently both days.

(5)Geelong Town
This town was very beautiful, and we could see the harbour. After taking some photos, we took a coffee break at Buchanan Cafe on Cunningham Pier.

Harbour, Houses, & I

Geelong Bay & Mr.G.P.	Houses in Geelong Town & I	Cunningham Piar Buccanan Cafe

(6)Silent Winter Harbor
It was very quiet in winter. We didn't see any other travelers. The souvenir shops and cafes were empty.
We left this shop after a coffee break.
Next we returned home. None of the cars drove fast the maximum speed was 110 km/h.

(7)There were some signs and roundabouts on the free ways.
When we drove on a free way in a country area, all the cars slowed down to 40 km/h after seeing a 40 km/h sign. After we came off a roundabouts, all cars speeded up 100 km/h.
When I saw a 80 km/h sign, I saw a town far away. Then the sign changed from 80 km/h to 60 km/h, 40 km/h. When we saw the panel a 40 km/h sign, we had arrived in a town.

(8)The rule for driving on to a roundabout.
here are rules for entering a roundabout. If we see any other cars in the roundabout before we enter it, we wait . Australian people kept tis rule. There are the licensed society in Australia, Europe and USA. Then To hold the rule is usual, because the license is to hold the rule.
Australian people say that Japanese people break the rules.
It is very interesting that a roundabout onto a big road has 2 ways to enter the roundabout.


9, The Cost

Cost(A$=\70)	The 1st Day	The 2nd Day	The 3rd Day	Sub Total
Rental for Mortorcycle	220	220	220	660
Fuel	---	25.6	17.6	43.2
Food and Soft Drinks	44.6	33.1	53.0	130.7
Entrance Fee	---	13.0	---	13.0
Total	264.6	291.7	290.6	846.9

Casino in the CROWN building	The night view from restaurant (Flinders street station and Yara river)

Main gate of Flinders street station	We can see the NEC's neon sign.	There are Japanese Restrant in China Town

I had a very nice trip with no trouble.

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