Beach Baby Beach Baby

I woke up to the lovely sound of those damn birds. Again. They were particularly loud today.

It took everyone a while to get together today to get out and about, but we eventually did. Today was my first beach day (and the first for most of us). 13 or so of us took the bus into Fremantle. Apparently not every bus stop is a bus stop. The first one we went to at the very edge of campus isn't a usual stop. But it has a bus stop sign and a little bench and roof. Before the bus came, half of the group ran down the road without a side walk, dodging traffic to get to the stop just down the road. After a minute, I, along with the other half walked after them, only to see the bus coming round the bend, not giving us time to get down to the other stop. We eventually got on after being playfully ridiculed by the bus driver.

Once we got onto the train, it was only 4 stops along before we were able to take a bus the rest of the way there. The beach at Cottesloe isn't very pretty:

This is where I went on Thursday with my mate Angela. Gorgeous weather today too.

After sunscreening up, a lot of us went right in. I daddled a bit to let some of my sunscreen soak in more, but  I neglected my back, which I'll be sure to get next time (it's a bit overly red at the moment, but nothing too painful yet). The water was the warmest I've ever experienced before which was quite nice. However, there were plenty of rocks here and there that really should be avoided.

Several of us threw a frisbee in the water which was particularly fun. Diving all around and having a grand old time.

We only stayed about an hour and a half, two hours before we decided to go back into Fremantle. We split up so that some of the girls could try to buy cellphones (which they totally failed at) while the rest of us went to look for the pub I went to with Angela on Thursday. We found it but I didn't particularly feel like spending the money, so I ended up finding the girls again and going back into campus. The shower felt so good once I got back; I'm not a fan of sunscreen and general grossness experienced at the beach.

Last night I ended up going to the pool where a party was being thrown by some Australians. There were a lot of people there and someone was giving out free beer. I met some fun people, including a local who interns in Orange County for Blizzard, the company who makes the video game World of Warcraft (among others) that Graham and I play. Pretty small world. Bugger was supposed to add me on Facebook but he hasn't yet!

I'm dead tired but probably going across the courtyard here to hang out with some of the Americans. Nothing too crazy I don't expect. Right after dinner just now though there was a fantastic sunset. Good end to a sunny day.

I've started to record video for parts of my travels in Australia. You can follow see my Australia YouTube videos here.

My first video (from today at the beach) is here.

Today: 7.5