My Mornington PeninCHula flies

Today Howitt Hall had an outing to Mornington Peninsula Beach-except for here its pronounced pe-NIN-chu-la. From the looks of it Mornington is very popular with the senior citizens of Victoria. 8 out of every 10 people we passed on the bus belonged in a retirement community. Anyhow this beach was more of a bay than a beach. There was water and seagulls and sand and really hot weather. But there was a dock with sailboats and there was no wind to blow away these pesky flies that Australia seems to have.

These flies just seem desperate for attention. Once they find you they stick with you for good. The just buzz around your head, explore the inside of your ears and practically try to crawl around on the surface of your eyeball. So you can imagine how uncomfortable and painfully long this 3 hour outing to the "beach" was. Don't these flies have other more productive activities they can participate in rather than pester Melbourne's citizens?

Its the begining of the end of summer here and its still hot. But there seems to be a lack of air conditioning here. The bus ride back was like riding in a sauna. I fell asleep on the bus ride back to the uni and I wasn't sure if I had drooled excessively in my sleep or I had just sweat that bottle of water I had just before boarding the bus.

It was the latter.