We travelled the length of the Solar System at St Kilda Beach (and tried to spot penguins) | Vlog | 

Remember, everything is to scale, including the planets and sun. If they made the planets bigger, they'd have to make the walk longer (and it's long enough as it is lol).Gives you a bigger appreciation of the size of the solar system. It's a nice walk when the weather is good. Hopefully works will be finished next time you come.

I never knew this existed until you did a reaction on this ages ago Rob and once I showed my daughter she wanted to do it! So we did the walk earlier this year..Sun to Pluto with a stop in Port Melbourne for lunch. My daughter loved it!

Pluto should always have an honourable mention. Even its pattern is adorable.

Charlie clinging on like a koala...😆

I didn't know they where there, so interesting, what a great idea to get some aerobic and mental exercise!! St Kilda has really been upgraded since I was there, glad the artist vibe has remained! Love the sun, very tactile and worth the "walking'' effort! 🤗👋 (I wish the ship to Tasmania hadn't been moved further away, too hard now!) Thanks 👍

What a pleasure having you here in Australia. You are so welcome back. You should be so proud of this series

Rob It's now oct 21 ..Melbourne 24 celcius ..lettuces $1.49... petrol $1.74 a litre...Weather is warming up..

Good ole Melbourne always being cold and windy for no good reason. Especially on the beach 👏😅

This is great. Better than anything in Melbourne. Thanks for taking us along.

Good to see there were no magpies lol . Uranus, very childish Rob I love it hahaha

Upper right you can see one of the little buggers saying "piss off" before going into his or her house. Great as normal, thanks guys.

Well, I was thinking it was all a bit underwhelming with the eeny weeny planets but then when you showed the big ol sun it kind of put it all into perspective! Quite impressive. Thanks for sharing guys 😊 and for the Uranus jokes 🤭

You should have gone to Phillip Island for the day. The penguin march there in the evening is delightful. They walk right past you on the paths as well. My son put his hand into a nest - against the rules, of course, and he was about eight - and he was bitten by one. Taught him a lesson, and not many people get bitten by penguins in their lifetime. LOL Out towards Phillip Island is The Nobbies, where seals are lolling all over the rocks, too.

Good to see you paid St Kilda a visit on a clear sunny day it's a nice place to walk may be from St Kilda pier to South Melbourne where the Spirit of Tasmania leaves from but on a bleak winter day it can be a bloody cold place with the wind blowing across the bay from the south

Did not expect to enjoy the Solar Walk. Thought it would be as boring as all.. get out. But YOU - with your enthusiasm and all the little details -actually made it fascinating! Well done. Really did get to experience the sense of distance and proportions. [* Big applause to the creators.] Good job with the scooters too. (Yeah - that Wind Chill Factor can really catch visitors off guard in Melb - and here in Tassie too. Straight off the Antarctic. Googling the daily forecast: deceptive. Always take extra layers! ) Thanks for taking us on this excursion.😃👍

Come on guys how did you not notice Jupiter was actually just a lawn bowl!🤣

They are making a viewing platform there and it will be much better when it's finished. Over 1300 penguins live in that area and when it isn't a building site penguin spotting is very easy. I was disappointed Rob that it was under construction for you guys but it's all about timing. The solar system's walk is great and even locals are not fully aware of it

My “backyard”! Yeah it can be bloody windy that’s for sure, but it’s amazing in summer!

In Tassie there are free camping spots at a beach near Penguin (go figure!) where the penguins walk past the tents/campervans at night. They are noisy though and a bit smelly! There are also 2 proper viewing areas in towns either side of Penguin on NW coast. The town of Penguin itself is worth a visit too, get a selfie with the Big Penguin🐧

I like that you went from the outer to the inner.

Another place to see the Fairy Penguins is Phillp Island Love the sunset at St.Kilda Beach Felt a little sentimental even though I moved to New South Wales in 2003.You've done well with your visit this time

I live in Melbourne, but didn't know about the Planetary walk (trail). A must do now it's shorts weather. And thanks for pronouncing Uranus correctly which is more than the yanks dare do.

Glad you had fun zooming along the solar system. 😊

Spirit of Tasmania is in the process of moving to Corio, near Geelong. They just had their maiden voyage in to Corio like, Yesterday I think.

On your next visit. You must head to Phillip island for the penguin parade. It’s a funny and great experience to see the little guys in their fancy suits.

Rob, you forgot the Asteroid belt, Kuiper belt and the massive Oort cloud.. 200 miles away on the scale.😁😁

The planet walk is great

Must of been disappointing to get to the sun and still cold. Loved my time living in Melbourne but sure don’t miss that weather.

Thank you Charlie & Rob, this video was amazing 👏 and wonderful - thank you so much for taking us along!

I've done the walk and i enjoyed it. I liked the comparative sizes to scale. Makes sense when you put it all together with the space between each planet. Imagine of they did the milky way? Our solar system would be a grain of sand.

lol, yeah I saw a couple

Loved to see this, my first time, thank you! Pluto was demoted because they found so many other planetoids larger than it. If it was a planet, we’d have to learn 40+ names instead of 8. Be a science teacher like me and teach Uranus to 12-year-old boys every year. If I had a dollar for every time a boy asked “Does Uranus have rings?” I'd be very rich.

amazing. I did that walk on Boxing Day last year but I started from the sun. you go from the sun to mars and it's not so bad but after that it's a long way. it's a long way nearly 6km which is 3.7 miles but it's a good walk. I hope you had a good time.

Lovely views of the beach as you go.

Next time u visit go see the penguins at Phillip Island - you get to get up close.and personal!

Yep saw one, by those stairs.

I lived in Melbourne from 69 until 76 & St Kilda was nothing like that .Looks like they have built a Breakwater & large marina around the Pier now & I never saw a Penguin Either & Never saw snow in the 7 years I lived there.

I never expected to see Uranus on your channel. 🤪

I've done that walk from Port Melbourne to St Kilda.or vice versa several times, and it is enjoyable especially when the weather improves. Pity you missed seeing the penguins and maybe next time you visit try and go to Phillip Island to see the nightly Penguin parade . 🤗

That was awesome. Puts some things into perspective .😃Not just the geography of our solar system

I have never forgotten (from when I was a kid) the order of planets of our solar system: My Very Energetic Mother Jumped Swiftly Up Near Pluto - Mars, Venus, Earth, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto, easy! Now that also depends upon whether you include Pluto, personally I do 😀

Lina, Astro, Pixie❤

Omg Charlie is so adorable ... umm you are too Rob. Haha

Terrific you made the trip along the beach SolarcSystem Tour and stayed into the evening to at least try to see the local Penguins. 🙂🙂🙂👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️ I do hope you have gained appreciation of the scale of our tiny solar system. A scale rarely appreciated on pure visualisation given the numbers. The tiny nature of the planets compared to distances between them. The massive ratios of gas giants to the rocky inner inner group and the Suze of our sun relative to all the planets. Yet not clear is how insignificant our sun is in the scale of stars in the universe. There are many stars so large even Jupiter as far as it is would be inside these huge stars. Such giants may have upto many tens the mass of the sun, but such massive stars consume all that Hydrogen mass in mere million years or less, before swelling beyond entire solar system and ultimately blowing apart in super nova events that seed heavier elements into space to become future planets and dust. All elements beyond iron can only form in such Nova events as nothing beyond Iron is able to form by fusion inside stars. In fact it is creation of iron that "poisons" a star to death by supernova. Large stars then leave a white dwarf neutron star or if massive enough a Black Hole. There likely exist many black holes of moderate size, and especially large ones, created by fusing smaller black holes become massive even to millions or more mass of our sun. These exist in centre of galaxies, holding these together. But small stars like our Sun consume their meager Hydrogen slowly to last billions of years like our Sun is already around 5 billion years old and expected to last a similar time yet. Smaller stars even longer. As big as the solar system as you have seen it now, it is tiny, mere light hours Suze. To nearest next visible star is around 4.7, a triple system with actually a too dim little red dwarf to visually show, requiring good telescope, at near 4.3Light years. Our galaxy is over 100,000 light years across, and other galaxies then outwards in order of millions of light years and up. We are less that a speck of dust in the universal scales. Good to see that you at least tried to see our little peguines. Sad that construction work sort of spoiled that a bit. Yet a trip to the Philip Island Penguin parade would have cost much time, with travel etc at least if not more than a day. There however you have them parade directly past the viewing public going from/to ocean into the dunes to their burrows. In the long solar system travel you would have seen a extensive stretch of beach which itself is only a small section of several large beaches along the east beach side with a few rocky breaks all the way down to the Port Philip Bay entrance at the south end. The western side has a number of beaches as well but also more 'marshy' less sandy parts best beaches are on the east side. Outside the bay the ocean side has many great beaches bother sides of the bay entrance, but here if anything the better beaches are west side, and along the coast where the Great Ocean road goes too. The East Bass Straight beaches have steeper coastal fringe harsher waves, less nice beaches. Not to say there are not also very good popular beaches on the east coastal area. Hope you still enjoyed the time at our bay beach area even if not especially warm that day. 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂👍👍👍💙

A trip to Phillip Island to see the penguin parade is really worthwhile. Plenty of seating and lights, and a very large interactive, tourist information centre, it is very popular for overseas visitors and locals.

Hey rob hope you enjoyed our wonderful city hope you had a blast down under just a little bit of info as your doing the solar system at the 12 - 11 minute mark just behind your ear is Jupiter IRl :) as it’s at opposition at the moment making it “ close to earth “ hope you come back to Melbourne at some point again

Aww that’s a shame you didn’t get all the way to the end! But glad you got to see some penguins! ❤

If you get the chance do the one that starts are the anglo australian telescope dome at siding springs. the dome of the telescope is the sun. you drive for hours before you get to the end.

There is a similar scaled solar system at Coonabarabran NSW . The home of the siding springs observatory and the Warrumbungle National Park

One of your best vids ever, thank you.

Up until about 1966 Melbourne pubs used to close at 6.oo pm Causing a mad rush known as the 6.0'clock swill .& they used to say Brisbane was a Hick Town.

If you come back to Melbs, there's a boat that goes out to where the penguins are. Better still, Phillip island is where you'll get really clear sightings, and you'll even see them going to the nesting boxes that were built for them.

You're lucky you didn't get fined Rob...Helmets are mandatory. Great video, now there's no need for me to go & see it for myself.... You need to go to Phillip Island if you want to see the penguins up close. You were right there in Melbourne too!...next time ✌

I walked/cycled this in the rain years ago and what it taught me was just how strong gravity is over enormous distances. How these relatively tiny objects (by the standards of Space) tug at each other and keep each other in orbit, is astounding. you can't even see the planets from each other except for the inner planets, let alone the Sun itself which is only 2m in diameter at 1 billion to one scale. btw you skipped Alpha Centauri which is also to scale with this system (if you circled the Earth to come back to it - THAT is amazing!!).

I am so glad you went to St. Kilda beach. You need months to see all that Melbourne has to see, according to what you like to do. My aunt and uncle drove around Australia for 7 years, and still didn't go everywhere. Like me they were from England and so they understand how vast Australia. I don't think they went to Tasmania. Tasmania is more like England in the size and weather conditions. Queensland is beautiful if you like the sunny conditions and tropical feel with wildlife and beautiful beaches. The Gold Coast, a bit commercialised and the Sunshine Coast beautiful, and of course the Great Barrier Reef. Sorry I didn't visit you when you were in Melbourne. The place you went to was only 2 blocks from my apartment. Near Swantston Street, not busy in any way. Hope you have settled back at home now. best wishes from Elizabeth

5:50 just a kelpie telling you to move along

Hi Rob & Charlie. The way I Remember the solar system is…… Many Very Early Man Just Sat Under Nine Planets….. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto when it was considered a planet.

Charlie looks at Pluto and thinks Rob 🤣

This was great, at first I was with Charlie….”is that it” 😅😅 but then as you went on Saturn and Jupiter were pretty amazing and I loved all the fun facts and distancing along the way ❤ The size of the sun ☀️ is crazy 😜 Really puts it all in perspective 👍🏽

Now that was cool, it’s amazing to see the size of each planet and compare it to the sun, that boggled my mind. I heard the Penguins but like you Rob didn’t see them. Here in Queensland we have Seaworld and you see penguins and learn all about them. Really great video guys, enjoyed that immensely.❤️

What a great way to have an educational walk...and the beach views...win win...glad you enjoyed it...pity about not seeing penguins up close though 😒

13:18 I could be wrong, but that looks like the actual Venus behind you there.

So, I went on that walk today. From Mercury to the sun, lol. I hope that counts 😜

You were having so much fun Rob

G'day, I know where the Penguinswere. In the water.

gee back in Melbourne, gee you must like Melbourne a lot, even though you return to England.

Next Australian visit consider visiting the World's largest scale model Solar System. It has a scale of 1:38 million. It starts at Siding Springs Observatory where the 37 meter telescope dome represents the sun, but you have to drive 200 km to reach Pluto. A great drive, and the planets are of course much larger than the small Melbourne model. Talking of astronomy, the giant radio dish at Parkes (another highly recommendable place to visit) has something interesting that never gets into the tourist books. In their garden they have an apple tree, that was grown from a cutting of Newton's apple tree. I believe that it too is a cutting of an apple tree, which is a cutting of an apple tree, all the way back to Newton's original. Even though it is an indirect connection, I love that descendants of Newton's tree are grown and revered by scientists like that.

That construction work is very disappointing but I think they're trying to build something to get you close but without disturbing them. You'll just have to come again eh!

Should check out Saturn on a telescope, worth the effort.

"Pluto is definitely a planet" - Pluto Gang (probably)

In 2008 artists and scientists constructed a model of our solar system to a scale of one to one billion between St Kilda and Port Melbourne. Instead of navigating 4.5 billion kilometres from the sun to Neptune, and 5.9 billion kilometres from the sun to Pluto, you only travel 4.5 kilometres and 5.9 kilometres. The foreshore has always been a superb location to view the sun setting on the western horizon. Port Phillip Bay's crescent shape is perfect for a model where the 'sun' can be viewed from every one of the nine model locations.

@6:31 - A Double Headed Chubby Unicorn

Had I known you were so close I would have come hello (I'm just up Fitzroy St)

I heard that if the Sun was the size of a grain of sand (proportionally speaking) then the entire solar system would fit on a dinning table and our next nearest star would be 12kms away.

great video thanks

After this weekend the Spirit of Tasmania will no longer be going to Melbourne, it’s going from Geelong instead

Hey guys if you get a chance one morning just after dawn head to Norris Reserve you have a great view of the city and all the different colours of the glass on the skyscrapers. It’s not well know but pretty unique. You can also see it at late afternoon if your on the west side of the city. Footscray area.

Rob, you missed one last piece in the diorama.... if you'd walked another twenty metres there's Proxima Centauri, the nearest star... but when you read it the distance is actually almost the circumference of the earth.

Did you notice you size and scale of the moon in relation to the earth and it's actual relevantly vast distance from the Earth, considering it's size. It looks so very close in the sky. This object of this presentation is to demonstrate the vast distance between objects, relevant to the actual size of these heavenly objects.... Pluto is very very small and a very very long way away. It is amazing that we are even aware of it's existence...

Hi Rob and Charlie, I'm glad you got to see the sun at St. Kilda. I just pop out my back door and look up everyday (when it's not BLOODY raining in Australia!!!). LOL. Although I haven't done that walk, I do it would help illustrate in people's minds the sheer distances of space (and hopefully how futile it is to spend SO much money on space exploration, whilst so many people on Earth starve - for many reasons not to be mentioned here). There, that's my rant for the day. I hope you post the footage of your penguin experience or have you already done that? How's it feel to be back at home? I trust all the animals are well. Sorry I couldn't join you for the 'Cuppa Tea' the other day, I was out. All the best. See you online! GB

Easier to see penguins at Phillip Island.

Penguins, where, over there. Carn the Saints......🙃

Another time: Philip Island you can see close up

Uranus should be in St Kilda proper rather than Middle Park. Did you see any galahs? They often around the median strip in the middle of the road. I know Beaconsfield parade really well I used to drive it everyday to and from work.

You can see the sun in Melbourne? Better hurry, it'll be pissing down in a minute!

You can see one splash between the posts.

you won't see the Spirit in Melbourne anymore...it's new home, as of the 23rd of Oct, will be North Shore down Geelong...I wish we could send photos through here...do you guys have a Facebook page, I'd like to send you some pic's of the penguins on St Kilda pier...they were taken back in late Nov 2018 when my friend from the States was visiting...we were able to get up really close and see them, albeit they were hiding under the steps...

Just so you know, Captain Kirk (or are you a Time Lord, Rob?), but you're starting with Pluto at Port Melbourne Beach, and heading about 6 km south to St Kilda Beach, where the Sun is located.

Mercury😆 yeah not far off... Start of video reference. Ignore if teen

I picked up a penguin at Phillip Island he was a ball of muscle he pecked both my hands 10 or 12 times in 2 or 3 seconds before l quickly put him down ..l was trying to help him get over a fence.

@00:40 if I had a dollar for every time I heard that.

for some reason i've never seen the "Sun" before despite walking along numerous times. Perhaps i was looking for a stone pedestal like the other planets. Didnt realize that big ball is the Sun.

You never went to Luna Park?

Pluto is definitely part of the Solar System , the debate is whether it qualifies as a planet (it doesn't) . It is one of many "Kuiper Belt" objects . So , What Up St. Kilda ? How about updating yourselves .

Wow, that's a niche tourist activity as far as I know, although that entire foreshore area is a favourite part of living in Melbourne for many people. My best memory is after nightclubbing all night in my early twenties, watching the sun rise over one of the beaches along there with two gay friends with their heads snuggled in my lap while I sat back on my hands. We got some odd looks from the very early morning joggers, but it was lovely. I particularly like the Norfolk pines along there.

Poor Capt Kirk and Mr Spock didn't have electric bikes. The Elec bikes weren't invented in those days.

Could not see any penguins in the footage

We do public art rather well in Melbourne.

Rob not wearing a helmet in Australia is a Fine

The best place to see penguins is in Tasmania. In Devonport there are loads. I have also seen penguins in Sydney while surfing.