PORTARLINGTON, VICTORIA

Portarlington Victoria is a small seaside resort on the northern tip of the Bellarine Peninsula. This low-key Australian resort town has long been a favourite holiday destination for Melburnians.

We stop at Portarlington on our way back to Melbourne. It's about 20 km from Queenscliff.

Thought of buying fresh fish and some other seafood at the jetty. We were a little bit too late. They already packed and get ready to go back.

The sandy beach was full with lots of people lying under the sun. :-)

QUEENSCLIFF, VICTORIA

Welcome to Queenscliff, The Jewel of the Bellarine Peninsula and forms one side of Port Phillip Heads - opposite Point Nepean in the Mornington Peninsula. It is surrounded by Bass Strait, Port Phillip Bay and Swan Bay on three sides.
It is about 107 km from Melbourne.

We (me, Zul, Zainah and her husband) suddenly decided to go for a trip for the weekend. Zainah and Huzaizi bought a 7 seater car for their family recently. Since it is a 7 seater car, me and Zul will definitely fit in.

We started early, Huzaizi drove the car from Dandenong and fetch Zul at High Street then Zul drove the car to my place. The travelling took about 1 hour and 44 minutes. Really it was a nice weather on Sunday as expected.

Reached Queenscliff just quater to 11 am. We stop at the information center, then walk around the town center of Queenscliff. Nice small town.

Then quarter to 12.00 noon, we look for a place to have our lunch before start exploring Queenscliff. We found a nice spot. Still not many people around, considering we were early. As usual Zainah always prepared all the foods. Nasi goreng, Nasi putih, beef rendang, Chicken fried with honey, sausages while Zul made sambal tumis telur goreng. Yumm and me hehe I did bought anything just my empty tummy.... hahaha...

We had a nice lunch picnic in the park under the shade of tall old trees with cooling sea breeze. So cooling and refreshing. Feels like to lie down after having a big meal. :-)

Then we started to stroll along the beaches. Ashraf was excited while on the beach.

Seems like Ashraf like to pose

Family photo. Zainah , Huzaizi and the rest of their family.

It was getting warmer. Should have brought my 3/4 pants and sandals.

The Old jetty.

It was quite a long walk and stop at each interesting spot or when we spotted some interesting items on the beach. Shells, star fish etc.....

Then we passes by the famous cliff and also once upon a time an old fortresses.

We identified colorful shells.

Fishing. Most Australian favorite passed time.

Almost more than an hour we strolled along the beach, then we climb up the cliff and started walking back to our initial spot. In between we stop at the Fort of Queenscliff.

Supposedly you could go inside the fortress and have guided tour.

One of the two light house. Only could be seen from outside the fence.

View of Queenscliff beach and jetty from the cliff.

We were a little bit exhausted after the long walk, had few minutes break and lie down on the grass while at the same time having a nice ice cream.

Before we started our journey back to Melbourne we stop at an old railway station of Queenscliff.

An old locomotive at the railway station.

SkyHigh, Mount Dandenong

Welcome to SkyHigh Mount Dandenong
Observatory Road
Mount Dandenong, VIC 376
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We came here last week with Dato' Roy and his family but unfortunately it was raining heavily. Bad luck. Other wise they would definitely enjoying the scenic view from SkyHigh.

From a far distance. Melbourne CBD.

We arrived at 6.15pm. It was a nice weather.

It has a nice garden and places to have picnic and BBQ.

You can also explore the SkyHigh Maze. It was closed when we arrived.

Once upon a time. Igor was here. This was Igor Giant Chair. Hmmm........

Ashraf , was so entertaining.

The floras of Mount Dandenong.

Relieve

Finally I was able to complete my final task for this year. Still a lot more to do early next year but at least it was a huge relieve. Alhamdulillah. All my patients for this year already completed their 1 month task and so far they are all comply with the task. Still another 5 more months for them to complete the 6 months task. Hopefully no drop out. Hope to get some more patients next year and completed all my data collection before end of next year.

'Tour de Dockland to Skydeck', Melbourne

I wish, I had enough time to show Dato' Roy (Suroya) and his family touring around Melbourne CBD. I was really fully occupied and deeply committed with my recruitment, patients program, training and data collection.

I managed to finish all my work by 3 pm and rush to meet Dato' Roy family at Flinders Station.

Get back home and get change. By the time I met them it already 5 pm. Took them strolling along Yarra River and then took City Circle to Dockland.

A little bit rushing though but, assumed they enjoying it. Spent quite sometime at dockland.

Our main intention of the day was to go to Skydeck. They would like to watch sunset from skydeck. Weather was so kind that day and it was a lovely day (almost lovely day...) to watch sunset.

Really hope they had a good time.

Picking Berry in the Rain.

Dato' Roy and his family came to Melbourne since Monday, 8 December 2008 and has been staying at Zainah's place since then. I have known Dato's Roy when I was involved with Ministry of Sports and Youth activity while it was under Minister at that time Datuk Seri Azalina Othman from late 2004 till 2006 before I came to Melbourne

It was nice to meet Dato' Roy again. So unfortunate I only managed to meet him only on saturday. Had planned to go for berry picking and touring around Mount Dandenong area. Bad luck it was raining quite heavily on Saturday. Still everybody want to continue with the plan and we did.....

We arrived at our usual place for Berry Picking. Raining and strong wind did stopped us from proceeding with our plan. Berry Picking. Even with rain coat, still I was soaking wet. But I did enjoy myself.

Next stop was, Sherwood Picnic Ground where you can feed all the wild birds. Been here before early this year and it was also raining. Hmmm..

Christmas Tree

Christmas Tree decoration and show at Crown Plaza, Southbank

My Anxiety

Hoping for the best.

All about Southern Star

The Southern Star

Stood still for a while. Still not functioning yet. Hopefully soon.

Southern Star, The eye of Melbourne.

Approaching Southern Star from Harbour Town.

A closer look of Southern Star

It huge. Wanna ride?? . It will cost you 29 dollars per person

Well, I might try to jump in sometime next year. See how it goes.