a day at the beach.
following a rather bizarre dream i had one morning (i believe my bizarre dreams of late are a result of waking up and then sleeping through my alarm each morning) wherein vicki, kate and i were off on a tram-led adventure to find a particular beach and ended up in a dodgy little wooden rowboat amongst a whole crowd of total strangers etc etc; i was overcome with the desire to spend a day at the beach, or rather a city beach.
predicting less than desirable beach weather, but our spirits not dampened in the slightest by that prospect, vicki and i set off for our adventure last thursday, on the 20th of sept. haha, sounds ominous doesnt it.
actually it turned out to be a really fun day. we started off by both arriving late to the meeting spot at flinders clocks, i was late due to myself, and an argument with my mum about how i was late, so worried about holding vicki up i got my brother to drop me at a station on his way to uni. but as things worked out vicki's tram was slow and late so i had time to get a bit of phone credit and then we met half an hour later than originally planned.
we jumped on a tram (luckily vicki knew which one and from where) at started on our way to st. kilda beach and acland street, eagerly anticipating the beach and gelati.
alas we got off a stop too soon, and then took a scenic route down acland street, and then we were so in the mood of walking down the street we ended up walking too far and had to trek across a football field to get back into the general direction of the beach. haha. it's amazing how u can lose something as big as the ocean!
eventually we got to the beach, but alas couldnt find the promised gelati shop!! we wondered around some more and then decided we'd settle on the beach first,and then get something to eat later.
surprisingly, (or maybe not so surprisingly) we were the only people on the beach except for a small family (of maybe korean people?). the weather wasnt good, but it wasnt that bad!!
i admit the sky looked a bit dark and cloudy, but it wasnt raining, and there was sunshine.
we braved the icy water with our toes just long enough to agree that it was icier than phillip island waters in winter and that no, contrary to previous plans we would not be charging in, in our clothes, so we went back to my cool beach bag and our stuff.
we took some memorabilia photos, trying to make our day at the beach look as fantasic and 'beach-weatherish' as possible, despite the contrasting clouds haha.
i believe we managed to pull it off to a certain extent!
we built a sandcastle without the use of wet-sand, and had a shell hunt so we could decorate it. i accidentally demolished one of our watchtowers by putting the beach towel on it...something vicki is yet to forgive me for....
we checked out the pier and found some interesting graffiti...one involving brendan and some girl declaring their love and another which i found quite interesting/ unique.
it reads 'i love Dim Sim' if im not mistaken. is that actually someone's name?? i mean, i love dim-sims too, but not enough to write it everywhere!
and then we spotted a nearby building across the road had a man abseiling down the outside of the building.
vicki was later inspired when we discovered this rope at the pier.
likewise, we were inspired by this photo off leila's blog, her greece entry.
i was rather disturbed the afternoon i looked at the enlarged version of the photo and realised leila's left leg is missing and her pant leg seems to be empty and blowing happily in the wind. vicki was also a touch concerned when i pointed it out to her.
so, we decided to try a re-enactment, to see just how easy or difficult it is for this sort of shot to be done.
hmmmm ... not quite as natural as leila's ...
at last we decided we vicki had fasted long enough and off to acland street we returned. we were tempted by smoothies (banana , and mixed berries) and then got some chips from a fish + chips shop. twice quite yumm!
vicki had a job interview to go to in the late afternoon (at a poledancing school! 'pole princess' woo! haha. the position was for a receptionist lol, not as exciting as what first comes to mind, ey? but still sounds cool), so we decided to jump on a tram back to the city.
while we were waiting for a tram we must've been talking about danceclubs cos something came up about bird mating dances, and this freaky old man appeared out of no-where grinning and telling us 'i heard that!'. i was most dismayed when i noticed he was getting on the same tram as us, so i made vicki sit right up the front of the tram, as far away as possible as we could from the old man. haha
this however, turned out to our advantage, because.... we had an almost driver-eye view of the trip back to the city!
this is of course a reference to a hillarious dvd product i found on ebay last week, which i'd shared with vicki over msn. basically it's a movie of the 96 tram route, taken from a drivers eye view, the blurb of which is written up mighty well. u can really get a taste of the excitement involved, u can 'hear all the bumps and rattles', and watch a car 'do a u-turn in front of the tram' etc etc. it's quite funny. i recommend u all go and read it. it's not nearly as good when i quote it, cos u dont get the big colourful fonts!
so vicki and i entertained ourselves watching a 'live show' of the 96 tram route, hearing all the bumps and rattles, along with the whining of the breaks, and i think the driver of the tram was getting a bit pissed off cos i noticed he jumped in fright every time i let off a shriek of laughter. i guess it can be a bit ear piercing at times.
i tried my hand at filming my very own video drivers eye footage of the journey, but it didnt work properly... so i contented myself by filming out the window instead. looked pretty cool actually!! like a panoramic movie, sped up!
oh, this random pipe was on one the other side of the beach, on the other side of the pier, we thought it looked a bit phallic, hence we avoided it haha.
we went to one of vicki's most hated spots, spencer st station (if she evers gets depressive and goes missing for several days at a time i've been told that that's the likely place she would try to commit suicide), and took a tram back to the city. vicki then went off to kew for her interview and i had a quick browse of the shops and then went home too.
felt pretty tired after it all, but i believe the adventure was well worth the effort! plus, i can now make a 'passengers eye view' 96 tram route dvd and post it on ebay. pity the other dvd didnt seem to be selling all that well.....
following a rather bizarre dream i had one morning (i believe my bizarre dreams of late are a result of waking up and then sleeping through my alarm each morning) wherein vicki, kate and i were off on a tram-led adventure to find a particular beach and ended up in a dodgy little wooden rowboat amongst a whole crowd of total strangers etc etc; i was overcome with the desire to spend a day at the beach, or rather a city beach.
predicting less than desirable beach weather, but our spirits not dampened in the slightest by that prospect, vicki and i set off for our adventure last thursday, on the 20th of sept. haha, sounds ominous doesnt it.
actually it turned out to be a really fun day. we started off by both arriving late to the meeting spot at flinders clocks, i was late due to myself, and an argument with my mum about how i was late, so worried about holding vicki up i got my brother to drop me at a station on his way to uni. but as things worked out vicki's tram was slow and late so i had time to get a bit of phone credit and then we met half an hour later than originally planned.
we jumped on a tram (luckily vicki knew which one and from where) at started on our way to st. kilda beach and acland street, eagerly anticipating the beach and gelati.
alas we got off a stop too soon, and then took a scenic route down acland street, and then we were so in the mood of walking down the street we ended up walking too far and had to trek across a football field to get back into the general direction of the beach. haha. it's amazing how u can lose something as big as the ocean!
eventually we got to the beach, but alas couldnt find the promised gelati shop!! we wondered around some more and then decided we'd settle on the beach first,and then get something to eat later.
surprisingly, (or maybe not so surprisingly) we were the only people on the beach except for a small family (of maybe korean people?). the weather wasnt good, but it wasnt that bad!!
i admit the sky looked a bit dark and cloudy, but it wasnt raining, and there was sunshine.
we braved the icy water with our toes just long enough to agree that it was icier than phillip island waters in winter and that no, contrary to previous plans we would not be charging in, in our clothes, so we went back to my cool beach bag and our stuff.
we took some memorabilia photos, trying to make our day at the beach look as fantasic and 'beach-weatherish' as possible, despite the contrasting clouds haha.
i believe we managed to pull it off to a certain extent!
we built a sandcastle without the use of wet-sand, and had a shell hunt so we could decorate it. i accidentally demolished one of our watchtowers by putting the beach towel on it...something vicki is yet to forgive me for....
we checked out the pier and found some interesting graffiti...one involving brendan and some girl declaring their love and another which i found quite interesting/ unique.
it reads 'i love Dim Sim' if im not mistaken. is that actually someone's name?? i mean, i love dim-sims too, but not enough to write it everywhere!and then we spotted a nearby building across the road had a man abseiling down the outside of the building.
vicki was later inspired when we discovered this rope at the pier.
likewise, we were inspired by this photo off leila's blog, her greece entry.
i was rather disturbed the afternoon i looked at the enlarged version of the photo and realised leila's left leg is missing and her pant leg seems to be empty and blowing happily in the wind. vicki was also a touch concerned when i pointed it out to her.so, we decided to try a re-enactment, to see just how easy or difficult it is for this sort of shot to be done.
hmmmm ... not quite as natural as leila's ...
at last we decided we vicki had fasted long enough and off to acland street we returned. we were tempted by smoothies (banana , and mixed berries) and then got some chips from a fish + chips shop. twice quite yumm!
vicki had a job interview to go to in the late afternoon (at a poledancing school! 'pole princess' woo! haha. the position was for a receptionist lol, not as exciting as what first comes to mind, ey? but still sounds cool), so we decided to jump on a tram back to the city.
while we were waiting for a tram we must've been talking about danceclubs cos something came up about bird mating dances, and this freaky old man appeared out of no-where grinning and telling us 'i heard that!'. i was most dismayed when i noticed he was getting on the same tram as us, so i made vicki sit right up the front of the tram, as far away as possible as we could from the old man. haha
this however, turned out to our advantage, because.... we had an almost driver-eye view of the trip back to the city!
this is of course a reference to a hillarious dvd product i found on ebay last week, which i'd shared with vicki over msn. basically it's a movie of the 96 tram route, taken from a drivers eye view, the blurb of which is written up mighty well. u can really get a taste of the excitement involved, u can 'hear all the bumps and rattles', and watch a car 'do a u-turn in front of the tram' etc etc. it's quite funny. i recommend u all go and read it. it's not nearly as good when i quote it, cos u dont get the big colourful fonts!
so vicki and i entertained ourselves watching a 'live show' of the 96 tram route, hearing all the bumps and rattles, along with the whining of the breaks, and i think the driver of the tram was getting a bit pissed off cos i noticed he jumped in fright every time i let off a shriek of laughter. i guess it can be a bit ear piercing at times.
i tried my hand at filming my very own video drivers eye footage of the journey, but it didnt work properly... so i contented myself by filming out the window instead. looked pretty cool actually!! like a panoramic movie, sped up!
oh, this random pipe was on one the other side of the beach, on the other side of the pier, we thought it looked a bit phallic, hence we avoided it haha.
we went to one of vicki's most hated spots, spencer st station (if she evers gets depressive and goes missing for several days at a time i've been told that that's the likely place she would try to commit suicide), and took a tram back to the city. vicki then went off to kew for her interview and i had a quick browse of the shops and then went home too.
felt pretty tired after it all, but i believe the adventure was well worth the effort! plus, i can now make a 'passengers eye view' 96 tram route dvd and post it on ebay. pity the other dvd didnt seem to be selling all that well.....
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