The weather was not particularly nice yesterday. It was gray and dreary, but luckily not very cold at all. Down at the beach, it was a little misty and drizzly, but it was bareable.
The beach turned out to be very nice, despite how dull the weather was. We walked along the entire St. Clair beach area and the St. Kilda beach area, almost to Lawyer's Head, which turned out to be about 2.5km (nearly two miles). We had fun taking a lot of photographs of the area and running away from the tide on the shore.
The area reminded me a lot of the way the Oregon coast looks during the fall or winter.
It was at St. Kilda beach that we thought about catching the bus home from that area to avoid walking all the way back to the bus stop at St. Clair. There was no way to exit the beach, so we ended up trekking a few steep sandy hills to climb up on to a main road in a slightly sketchy construction area. We were hoping to follow the road out to the nearby residential area to find the bus stop. However, we were stopped by an unhappy beach ranger who let us know, "Yew gerls are trispessing." For a moment we were really worried that we were going to be in some sort of trouble. He merely scowled at us and told us the road we were on is fenced off for a reason and that no one is to be on the property. We apologized and explained we weren't exactly sure where we were going and that we were trying to find a bus stop. I'm guessing he was easy on us because we were foreign? Anyway, he had to unlock a gate for us to get out.
Taken just a few moments after the incident.
We ended up walking all the way back to the bus stop in St. Clair anyway.
We made it home safely though. It was a nice adventure.
Tomorrow is day one of classes. I'm nervous. I have Lit and Gender and NZ Art History. Hopefully I won't be too terribly lost on campus tomorrow. I'd hate to be late to a lecture filled with hundreds of people. Embarassing.
Anyway, wish me luck. I hope it goes well.
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