The last skate of the trip is always a dawn skate on the day that everyone flies out. It's a struggle to get up for but it's worth it as you skate along dark quiet streets, passing surprised workmen and drunken revellers straggling home.
We made it to St Kilda with a couple of falls but only one casualty. There is a pier at St Kilda with a stone breakwater at the end, and it's a great place to look back at the city
It's also the home of a small but thriving wild colony of fairy penguins. Unfortunately we arrived too late to see anything other than a penguin bum thrust out of the rocks in our general direction no matter how we tried to sneak up on them 
On the way home we skated through Albert Park, which had hosted the Melbourne grand prix the weekend before
After that all that is left is a farewell breakfast and some sad goodbyes
Well we stayed on for a couple of days, went wine tasting and had bracing walks by the seaside - but that's another story.....
In Melbourne we skate down to St Kilda (approx 20kms). We start before dawn and the sunrise can be breathtaking
It's also the home of a small but thriving wild colony of fairy penguins. Unfortunately we arrived too late to see anything other than a penguin bum thrust out of the rocks in our general direction no matter how we tried to sneak up on them After that all that is left is a farewell breakfast and some sad goodbyesWell we stayed on for a couple of days, went wine tasting and had bracing walks by the seaside - but that's another story.....
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