frankston is about 30 minutes by car from clayton. when ivy does the day shift, which starts at 8.00 a.m., she leaves the house just before 7.30 a.m. when i told her i wanted to take the train to frankston, she tried to dissuade me saying that the journey would take about one and a half hours and that frankston was not exactly an exciting place.
still, i wanted to see for myself the town where she works in. so, i took the bus to caulfield - where another monash campus is located - and there i transferred to the frankston train. the total time taken was about that duration - one and a half hours.
when i reached the end of the train line at frankston, i had another encounter with ticket inspectors. this time they were stationed at the validating machines to check that everyone had a valid ticket.
i headed for the beach. just before the beach, i passed some houses by the edge of the kananook creek. the creek drains into the sea. i walked on the sandy beach to the jetty where i met a group of primary 1 or 2 children on a fieldtrip. children are truly colour and gender blind; they came up to me and excitedly told me that they had seen starfish at the bottom of the sea.
i had lunch at the bayside shopping centre before taking the train back to clayton.
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