If you’re in Melbs I would definitely check it out.
I would actually advocate you visit the MP rather than the Great Ocean Road…the GOR is fucking beautiful, but so are parts of the MP and there is way more to do.
Stop off at The Deck in Frankston on the way down there…my good friend is the owner…haha
Closest I got to that was Seaford Beach. it was WC 2003 when I was in Melbourne so we spent a lot of time in the city, before venturing over to Bells Beach/Torquay for a few days
My sister in-law lives over in Melbourne. Really need to go visit the land down under at some point. Have otherfriends and family in Melboure, Perth and Sydney. It’s the cost and impracticalities of a long haul holiday holding us back from heading there on holiday…and the death noodles and various other scary/nasty creatures.
yes i live very near it in bayside.
for real?
whered you grow up.
im a seaford boy.
LOL,
the beach at the pier?..we used to jump off that as kids all summer long.
if you got fish and chips circa 2003 you would have seen my team group photo up on the wall
what is a death noodle?
any one of the 10 snakes in Aus that’ll kill ya.
I was there just before the Aussie cricket team coach got punched out and died at that bar in St Kilda.
ahhh ok…i was thinking maybe a blue ringed octopus…
never heard them called death noodles…but all good
they filmed a scene from Mad max 1 at seaford peir…i think americans relabelled the movie ‘roadwarrior’ not sure about canada…it was aseminal australian movie…
and bouncer jumped off the peir in an episode of neighbors once to our hilarity…‘theres strong currents there’ was the line…(there are no currents at seaford beach)
I believe they filmed Mad Max 2 - Road Warrior at Broken Hill, which was quite close to where I spent time in Mildura working for Jacob’s Creek.
Ye dude…
Grew up in the Eastern suburbs (Forest Hill, Vermont) but spent plenty of time down the Peninsula.
My wife and mother had a small business, so markets in Red Hill, Mornington, Portsea. Used to visit Point Leo with my bestie when I was 12-ish. My next bestie, his aunt owned the Conti in Sorrento for years, and we usually headed down there for NYE from about 17 onward. And we did a few pre-season camps down at Rye.
Oh…and my brother nearly drowned at Gunnamatta!
Love the Peninsula!! Really holds its own, imo…if you’re visiting Melbourne you must check it out!
By the way, 2 people a year die of snake bites in Australia and the last death from a spider bite was in the 1950s.
Doesn’t seem worthy of the hype.
It’s the drop-bears that you really need to worry about.
What about the
crocodiles 
scorpions 
spiders 
ya know what, I saw my share of redbacks, whitetails and huntsman spiders when I was there. and two snakes I couldn’t identify but scared the shit out of me when I stepped over them… but I didn’t once see a scorpion… saw some sharks while swimming out over the wreck at Byron Bay though.
Mornington… Can we go there in the afternoon or evening?
you can go there whenever you want!
regards the creepy crawlies…death is obviously the most drastic and ultimate statistic…and people often quote it…for instance i think its been generations since a redback claimed an adults life…but a bite can knock you about and fuck you up…
similarily a white tail, whose bite is not venomous/poisonous (i always get that mixed up) you can get a nip and keep on going without really noticing…but they are filthy creatures and very aggressive, and unlike redbacks, they can be found everywhere…Redbacks prefer dark and damp, so generally (not always) outdoors…its the bacteria around the bite that if you are unlucky enough to get infected can fuck you right over… dont even google it if you are anywhere near having just eaten, or about to eat.
death is definately a way to gauge the seriousness of our creatures, but its not the only way…
MORNINGton…ok i think my frail attempt at puns here have failed…
