Penguins
At sunset.
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An old pier reaching into Port Phillip Bay from the seaside suburb of St Kilda south of Melbourne, first built in the 1850s, with a historic timber pavilion and a rock breakwater at its end. Its best-known residents are a colony of little penguins, the world's smallest penguin species, living among the breakwater rocks and returning from the sea at sunset. Volunteers are sometimes on hand to protect them and guide visitors to watch without disturbing them. Around the pier lies lively St Kilda, with its beach and long promenade, the old Luna Park amusement park with its famous smiling-face gate, and Acland Street, known for its cake shops and European pastries. The pier and viewing are free. To see the penguins come at sunset, never use flash, and keep the distance the volunteers ask for.
At sunset.
The smiling gate.
European cakes.
St Kilda, on Port Phillip Bay, about 6 km south of central Melbourne
At sunset, when they return from the sea to the breakwater rocks; no flash.