We arrived on Philip Island this morning after the short drive from Venus Bay and immediately got ourselves lost in Amaze 'n' Things - a huge complex of illusions, games and puzzles.

The first thing we came across was an octagonal 'house' with a huge tap suspended above it with water pouring down through the windows and into a moat around the bottom, which marked the entrance to the main centre of amusements. Once inside we proceeded passed the hall of mirrors and into a laser light show that spun around us in the otherwise pitch black corridor until we found our way through the smoke and into the sloping room. This room was almost exactly the same as the one we had seen in Wanaka almost two years ago, with a chair that naturally 'slid' uphill and snooker balls that rolled up the table, along with a few optical illusions on the walls.

There was a room off to the side that used the same photography technique that was used in the Lord of the Rings films where the person standing at one end of the room appears much, much bigger than the person standing at the other end. It was nice for Jen to feel like a giant for a little while, until we had to leave the room to let others in and move on to the next section of the building - the mirror maze. As the name suggests the room was full of mirrors all angled in different directions (it was just like a scene straight out of Bruce Lee film) and we had to feel our way around for fear of smashing straight into a glass mirror. Somehow we managed to find our way out pretty quickly unlike many of the people we later saw getting lost and walking into the walls all the time.

The next room was full of all types of puzzles, from jigsaws to memory games and an interactive 'trap' that we had to work out how to get out of, as well as a couple of trains driving around on a huge computer screen on the floor. By changing the signal boxes and the directions the trains were moving we had to see if we could get them to crash into each other head on - a feat which we managed really easily the first time and then spent the next ten minutes running around trying to get them to do it again, but to no avail.

Once we had finally given up we headed outside to the giant maze, where we had to find our way to four flagpoles located in the corners of the maze before heading back out and into the building again. We managed to get to the blue and green flags pretty quickly as they were on the same side of the maze that we started from, but then it was time to make our way to the other two! To start with we had to work out which of the two bridges we needed to cross in order to get onto the right path, which we thought we had straight away only to find ourselves back at the same bridge a few minutes later. Eventually we made it over to the other side of the maze and found the yellow flag and then the real fun began - twenty minutes more of walking around and around looking for the red flagpole that always seemed to be just one more turn away and behind just one more fence panel. When we reached the one way doors for about the tenth time, we sadly gave up and headed back inside for fear of being stuck in the maze for the rest of the afternoon!

The last activity on the agenda was a couple of hours of crazy golf around the nineteen holes that surrounded the complex outside. By the time we had finally worked our way around the whole course it was getting dark and after a quick drive around the island to see what else was about we had little else to do but head back to camp.

Tomorrow we are heading on again to Melbourne, where we are hoping to spend a few days catching up with friends and seeing the sights of the city.