The Beach

There's not much you can do when it's above thirty degrees and you're offered a lift down to the beach for the day, apart from say of course!

We drove down the Mornington Peninsula, which forms the Eastern edge of Port Phillip Bay, the ocean like bay that Melbourne sits at the top of. The peninsula is only a couple of kilometres wide at some point, which means popping from back beach (on the ocean side) to front beach (bay side) takes only a matter of minutes, and both sides are full of amazing little beaches, hidden from the road and only accessible along sandy tracks through the bush. One of these inlets is home to a huge rockpool which only really exists when the tide goes out and the pool is left, under an overhang of rocks that are perfectly positioned for jumping off. The sea was incredibly vivid shades of blue, green and everything in between, made even better by the contrast with the pale coloured rocks and sands. I stupidly forgot both my camera and phone that day, and so the only surviving evidence is from my cousin's phone...but I'll be back to places like this to get some snaps of my own soon enough.