Melbourne Day 3

I think I better finish off the last few days of my Melbourne's trip. Or else, it'll take me forever. Sorry for the delay though.

4th July 2007
As early as 6:30a.m., Danny, Siong Bing and I were already in the Melbourne City, waiting for the tour to Mount Buller. What's so special about this mountain you might ask. This mountain was the place where I had my snowy experience!

We departed at about 7a.m. and reached the tourist spot at about 10a.m. It was a dangerous drive there as the road on the way up is quite narrow. My suggestion to anyone who wants to visit is to follow a tour. They offer quite reasonable price though. ;)

Snowing!

The weather was bad when we reached Mount Buller. It was snowing quite heavily. That was my very first time touching snow.

Skii hire.

What do you want?

Changing...

Everyone who followed the tour was directed by the tour guide to this ski hire place. The three of us decided not to skii since we wouldn't have enough time to learn and also to enjoy. So, we just hired pairs of boots to walk around.

Up the mountain.

All covered with snow.

Once we were all ready, we walked and explored the mouintain. It was still snowing heavily and it was difficult for us to walk. Imagine having sand throwing at your face. That's how it felt. Painful!

Snow fight!

Since we didn't ski, what can we do? Find something to do using those snow lah. :P

My first snowman.

I decided to make my very first snowman. It's not easy to roll the snow into balls! Look at the snowman. It's very small. Who can tell me the technique of making a huge snowman? Anyway, I am my snowman is cute or not? :P

Subway...

Eat fresh...

After an hour or so, we decided to walked back to the place for skii hire. There's a Subway and we thought, that's for the lunch on that day. Everything is expensive at Mount Buller. We expected that since it's a place for tourist. Moreover, all price for the stuff are increased due to the transportation fee. Luckily for Subway, it's only an addition of 2 or 3 dollars.

Coffee house.

After lunch, we continued to roam around the mountain. At times, we had to stop by some of the coffee houses along the mountain as it was snowing heavily. Like I said earlier, it's painful when the strong wind blow the snow at your face. We could hardly open our eyes!

Still, so many skiiers.

How to take photo like that?

We reached the highest stop after so much walking and stopping. Guess that's not a really good day for Mount Buller.

After that, we took a lift to the bottom of the mountain (photos later as we took the lift few times). By the way, you'll need to pay for pass to you the lift. Aud$17 for one sightseer pass. Saw the yellow pass at the photo above? You'll need that, or else, walk!

Good weather.

Clock house?

Upon reaching the bottom of the mountain, we were glad to see a clear weather. Haiyo, how I wish the weather was like that throughout.

That's the lifts.

Nice.

We, then, quickly ran up the mountain again to catch the lift. The weather turned bad while we were on the lift but luckily, it became clear after that. The scenery was awesome and I managed to snap few photos of that. :)

Mount Buller.

Sleeping beauty.

No skiing, no snowboarding. How sad... Lucky we did try tobogganing. It's something like sandboarding and I think it's fun! (Sorry, there's no photos of us tobogganing. It was snowing heavily then and I don't want to spoil my cam.)

After that, without us realised, it's time to leave Mount Buller.

Goodbye, Mount Buller.

I don't know when's the next time I will see and touch the white, cold snow again. But definitely, I will remember my great experience here at Mount Buller.

After spending a whole day at Mount Buller, all of us were exhausted. We had a quick dinner at city before Siong Bing's bro picked us up. We had a hot water bath to warm ourselves before calling it a day.

Melbourne Day 4, stay tuned!