Healthy Day
Saturday 5th December 2009, I went to explore my first ‘zone two’ in Melbourne. It was quite a pleasant trip. In the morning, I went jogging with my housemate Nadia and a good friend of mine, Dion. We jogged along Brighton Beach and as usual, Nadia was left behind. Hehehe.. She’s a very nice girl but gets tired so easily while I was challenging my self if I could make it to the Middle Brighton port, and YES! I DID! Hehe.. After we jogged, we walked for about an hour and went back home.
We have planned our day since Thursday that we would go to St Ali Cafe and somewhere to do a photo hunt. So we got home and looked for a place to do the photo hunt. Well we found one : Upper Ferntree Gully. It is located near Dandenong Ranges in Dandenong Mountain, which means : ZONE TWO.
After recharging my camera’s battery -because I forgot to recharge it the day before- we took the train to Melbourne Central, walked to Collins Street, took tram number 96, and changed to number 112 in front of Crown Casino. We got off not so far from St Ali Cafe and thanks to the GPS on my beautiful iPhone (haha.. so snob), we weren’t lost.
St Ali Cafe is a very nice place, well… Nadia loves it so much! 
So we ordered some drinks and food. Poor Dion, he was very hungry but at this time, he really has to save money… sooo… he didn’t ordered anything.
I took some photos in the cafe after I ate the delicious pizza and drank the ‘fusty’ tea. Nadia told me her cappuccino was great. Well, it turns out that St Ali is popular for its’ coffee.
From St Ali we took another tram to Southern Cross Station. It is the nicest train station in Melbourne I suppose, I will surely do a photo hunt there next time. Then we got in the train directed to Belgrave. 25 stops before we reached our destination. It was a long journey but a definitely fun one.
In Upper Ferntree Gully, we found this national park. We stopped and opened our lunchboxes before we continued our trip. Note that everybody was already tired of jogging and we were kinda lost for a while in Upper Ferntree Gully. After we ate our sandwiches and biscuits, we continued to WALK and we found this ‘dirt road to heaven’. WOAAAA!!! it was very steep!!! We reached ‘stop’ number 5. When I said ‘stop’, I mean a flat surface. We decided that we should go back. It was already 6pm after all. We had been walking for about 2 hours and we were exhausted.
Before we went back home, we bought some drinks. The mineral water I’ve bought is still in my room SEALED! Haha.. Anyway, it was a very great day.
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