Chill Island
November 6th, 2007 - 10:57pm - No Comments »
Our first wedding anniversary came and went this weekend. Since we are strapped for cash after our bid trip (we’re still paying it off but hope to be finished before the end of the year) we didn’t have any big plans. Someone at work scored free tickets to the Chill Island music festival at Phillip Island over the weekend. Given that they didn’t want the tickets and the first anniversary is “paper” (and tickets are made of, you guessed it, paper!) we managed to snag them for ourselves. The festival was to take place on Sunday.
The weather on Sunday at Phillip Island was so fierce that the event had to be postponed until today. Both of us were working today but skipped out early and made our way down to “the island”. The event was held on Churchill Island, a small island near the top of Phillip Island, just as you arrive on the island from San Remo. As we were late, we seemed to miss out on having to pay the $10 parking fee, which made it that much cheaper.
Entering through the gates, Clare Bowditch was playing and it was then that we realised the whole event was just a tad too “hippy” for our tastes. Of course, the crazy fisherman pants, the organic everything, the lentils on sale… they just sealed the deal.
We spent an hour or so sitting on the grass listening to the band play before we deemed the event to be not our scene. Retreating to our car we drove into Cowes for a little while before taking the long drive home. It’s lucky that we were able to find out these events are not our cup of tea for the low-low price of $0. The tickets and parking fee would have set us back over $150 otherwise.
