Third day with steaming hot babes and a shopping paradise

13th April

Hot! Hot! Hot! We were soooo hot today coz our first stop after breakfast was the Peninsula Hot Springs. After bidding farewell to the wonderful room at Peppers Moonah Link Resort, we headed to the hot springs which were rather near. Changed into our swim wear with bathrobes wrapped around, we followed the gentleman who described to us the future plans for the spa (they were even gonna built hot springs for babies. So cute right!) in a very nice room with cozy settings. We then proceeded to the relaxation room where we sipped the pot of Seven Angels hot tea and waited for the lady to bring us to the private bath. Ohhhh! I could hardly wait coz this was my first time doing this and back home, we did not had hot springs at all.


After a while, we were brought to our private bath and I was like “Wow!” when I saw the hot spring with huge amount of steam coming out of it. This 38 degree Celsius pool seemed sizzling hot and I was so right. The minute I put in my foot, I thought it would be cooked immediately. It was so freakingly hot! However, standing in the cool wind in my bikini was not making the matter better so eventually, I slowly edged my way to the other side of the pool and soaked my entire body into it. It did felt nice and comfortable after a while. Juliet was rather stiff like a robot and I guessed she couldn’t get used to it yet. Eventually, she did and the 4 of us just soaked ourselves in this mineral pool and chit-chatted (the 3 did all the talking) We did step out of the pool, sat on the side and drank some cold water occasionally when it started to feel too hot. One very interesting thing was that whenever we stepped out of the pool to cool ourselves a bit, steam would be coming out of our body and we looked just sizzling hot!


45 minutes passed by quickly and soon we gotta left the private bath. We hung out at one of the public baths where the temperature of the water was about 42 degree Celsius! It was even hotter than the one we did privately but surprisingly, the water felt ok and comforting. Guess my body was already used to the heat already. It was time to go (this place rocked and everyone should visit it. It was hot!) and we proceeded to our showers before leaving this wonderful and calming place and picked up the dudes who were teeing off. We went to a chemist (back at home it was pharmist..Haha) and got some medicine for me plus a scarf(to wrap round my neck). The prices of the medicine and lozenges were rather expensive. But hey! What’s more important was their efficiency right? We then proceeded straight for lunch at this place called The Baths in Sorrento.

This place had a wonderful sea view and of course, I should order seafood to suit the atmosphere right? (like the other time at The Rocks) I wanted to try the fish and chips but due to the loss of my voice, I was encouraged to have something that was not too heaty so in the end I ordered risotto primavera, fresh summer vegetable with a tomato base. We also ordered some entrees and what happened next was really funny. One of the dishes which we thought was an entrée was actually the main course of Tony, our cute bus driver (I was one of the guilty ones who ate just 1 piece)We realized the mistake after all of our main courses were served and had a good laugh about it. As we had to go to Sorrento Pier to board the Peninsula Searoad Transport ferry to Queenscliff at 3pm, we had hurried a bit so that we wouldn’t miss it.

It was so cool that the bus could board the ferry too! After alighting, Juliet and I proceeded upstairs and after realizing that standing outside the deck was really very cold, we decided to go inside and sit by the window instead (though I really wanted to stand outdoors! =( ) The journey was supposedly about 45minutes and I purposely chose a window seat so that I could see the view during the journey. However, it was rather relaxing sitting inside and I was tired so before I knew it, I dozed off and the next moment, I was awakened by Juliet coz we had reached Queenscliff.


From there, we proceeded to Torquay, which was Victoria’s surfing capital. They even had some of the biggest names in surfwear and stuff like Billabong, Ripcurl, Roxy and more. We stopped by these stores and were given about ½ hour to shop (gosh…so many tempting stores, so little time) The prices were amazing low and I was so tempted to buy every little this and that. I bought a pretty white Billabong wallet for myself at only $15 (which was abt $19.20 in SGD). We hurried through other stores, looking out for great discounts and nice souvenirs to buy home. The people at Roxy were really nice coz we didn’t buy anything from them and yet they gave us a watterbottle each! Later, we were informed by Tony that there were factory outlets selling such stuff but they were closing soon (the shops around closed at 5pm or 5.30pm the latest…still not used to this fact) so we hurried and indeed, the prices were even lower.

After some quick buys, we headed to Crowne Plaza Torquay which would be our accommodation for that night. I believed that this was the same company which had opened a hotel at Changi Airport T3. It was rather funny that our bus couldn’t enter the hotel lobby due to the height clearance so we gotta alight outside instead. My room number was 222 and I couldn’t wait to see how this room would look like. It was a long journey from the lift to the room and when we finally got there, my hand was aching from carrying my heavy bag and extremely heavy laptop bag. Juliet and I jumped into the oh-so comfortable bed as we were both feeling tired. Before realizing anything, we fell asleep and it was until Joyce called then we shot up (meeting time: 7.30) and just hurriedly prepared ourselves before going downstairs to meet them for dinner.

Dinner was at a simple place called Front Beach Café that was about a few minutes drive from the hotel. Both Audrey and Pree didn’t join us coz they had stuff to do. It was a nice and cozy café which served tasty food, like the spaghetti marinara with prawns, scallops, salmon, squids and mussels with garlic and lemon sauce that I ordered and shared with Juliet (coz we were still full from the delicious lunch earlier on). Plus the sweet white hot chocolate that came with 2 pieces of marshmallows just made the whole meal sweeter. Rod and Andre cracked nonsensical jokes and made all of us laugh while we ate fruit and cheese platters. They were really humorous and could liven up the atmosphere.

What a shock I got when I stepped out of the cafe coz the weather was really extremely cold (even the bus felt like the interior of a refrigerator). I guess it was because we were nearer to the sea and it was nighttime. We were freezing cold as we headed back to the hotel. After exchanging good nights, we went back to our respective rooms where I repacked my luggage to squeeze in my buys and then proceeded to bath before doing my blogging. I truly dun mind doing this: carrying my heavy laptop plus huge luggage and travel around on an all-expense paid trip and just shared my experiences with everyone out there. Really hoped that my health would get better soon coz the food was so superb and I really hoped to enjoy them and experience the remaining journey with a good health…and a voice.=)~