Philip Island, Victoria, Australia

Philip Island is an easy day trip from South-East Melbourne offering the city dwellers "a quick trip down the coast" with a chance to commune with and partake of some real australian nature photography. The Island boasts some of the best waves for surfing as well as the popular wildlife reserves where creatures such as native Australian penguins roam wild in the surf at night (pictured left). The windy Isle is also home to seals and kolas.

An easy three quarters of a hour walk along Cape Woolami will get you to The Pinnacles (pictured left), with its impressive red rocks and thundering waves. Native birds nest all long the point literally turning the sky black with their numbers at certain times of the year, as they dart every which way somehow avoiding head on collisions.