Mornington Peninsula

currently listening to : 猪先生- 许志安

chungyew, kangmeng, weejie and i went on a mornington peninsula road trip last monday. it was quite a spontaneous thing hence, the last minute gathering and planning. we left the city just before 9 in the morning (i was dead tired as usual as my sleeping time has been long messed up). we were very fortunate that the weather was super good that day - sunny and bright : ) our first stop was the main street of mornington peninsula. according to the brochure i took from the information center, that street was suppose to house a couple of historic buildings. but from my point of view, the length of the street is almost equivalent to burgundy street @ heidelberg and the so-called historic buildings wasnt very impressive (there was one building that used to be a bank, but it is now replaced by subway *sweat*). we had brunch at a cafe along the main street - i had a plate of bacon and eggs which was very salty. chung yew and i bought pastries from frank's bakery (highly recommended - my german apple crumble tasted really good!). our next stop, schnapper point - its basically a spot facing the sea. we then drove to arthur's seat - another picture taking spot. there's a huge chair in the garden (similar to the chair at surfer's paradise gold coast). our next spot, aschcombe maze & lavendar gardens - it's suppose to be the largest garden maze in australia (kononnya). i think this place was the biggest dissapointment of the day, the maze was alright (as in, a huge maze lor but the soil was a bit muddy and wet - quite membencikan). the ultimate blow was the rose maze - it was a maze without any blooming rose, just left over branches of rose trees. very memspeechlesskan. the rest of the garden was also a waste of time cos it's merely just a patch of not very green field with a couple of rocks here and there. boo hoo. i can't believe i wasted aud13 to enter. sniff sniff. we continued our journey to a couple more places as we need to only arrive at our last destination before 6pm. we stopped by at cape schanck and rye pier before reaching peninsula hot springs just before 6pm. its quite relaxing to end a long road trip there. we berendam in hot springs for almost 2 hours before heading back to the city. was dead tired when i reach home at 11+pm. all in all, another successful trip and to top it off, we planned it all by ourselves (thanks to boonshih for providing me with last minute destinations..hehe)

schnapper point

ashcombe maze

stone garden @ ashcombe maze (rundown hut)

spot my name! : ) hehe

cape schanck

smile for the pic!

sunset at rye pier

bye bye - till our next road trip : )