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bennet_7While on my recent holiday, I did something I didn't ever think I would do: I went to a Veronica Mars location.
For the first week we stayed just outside of Bateman's Bay, which is three hours south from Sydney, on the coast. Now on the road to Bateman's Bay (that road's name is the Princes Highway btw) I noticed a sign which indicated a turn-off to the town of Mollymook, the place where Duncan and his daughter are living (and ordering assassinations from) in the season 2 finale of Veronica Mars.
Despite the ensuing screams from myself and my sister (which went something like, "OH my GOD! Did you see that? Mollymook! Pull over, pull over, pleeeeeaaaaase Dad?!") we didn't stop that day to go and find everyone's least favourite robot and advise him to go check out an STD clinic. However, on the way back to Sydney, a week later, my mother was a lot more understanding and let me walk around a bit to take some pictures for my "Veronica Mars groupies" (as she likes to refer to you guys).
A sign.
Golf club - no doubt he'll feel right at home.
Perhaps he stayed here for a while.
Or maybe the near by Albacore Motel - somehow connected to the Albacore Club where the Echollses (and presumably the Kanes) kept their boats?
Here's the beach...
...also here.
Doesn't exactly resemble this.
And I still had no clue as to why RT and co. would chose Mollymook for Duncan's home-away-from-home.
Still, there were a lot of blue houses in Mollymook.
Perhaps RT google-earthed it and chose it for that reason but these houses just don't feel right for me.
Now I can see Duncan living here.
Perhaps in the future?
Duncan says, "Hi."
But he's not enthused.
For the first week we stayed just outside of Bateman's Bay, which is three hours south from Sydney, on the coast. Now on the road to Bateman's Bay (that road's name is the Princes Highway btw) I noticed a sign which indicated a turn-off to the town of Mollymook, the place where Duncan and his daughter are living (and ordering assassinations from) in the season 2 finale of Veronica Mars.
Despite the ensuing screams from myself and my sister (which went something like, "OH my GOD! Did you see that? Mollymook! Pull over, pull over, pleeeeeaaaaase Dad?!") we didn't stop that day to go and find everyone's least favourite robot and advise him to go check out an STD clinic. However, on the way back to Sydney, a week later, my mother was a lot more understanding and let me walk around a bit to take some pictures for my "Veronica Mars groupies" (as she likes to refer to you guys).
A sign.
Golf club - no doubt he'll feel right at home.
Perhaps he stayed here for a while.
Or maybe the near by Albacore Motel - somehow connected to the Albacore Club where the Echollses (and presumably the Kanes) kept their boats?
Here's the beach...
...also here.
Doesn't exactly resemble this.
And I still had no clue as to why RT and co. would chose Mollymook for Duncan's home-away-from-home.
Still, there were a lot of blue houses in Mollymook.
Perhaps RT google-earthed it and chose it for that reason but these houses just don't feel right for me.
Now I can see Duncan living here.
Perhaps in the future?
Duncan says, "Hi."
But he's not enthused.
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Date: 2006-12-30 03:47 pm (UTC)My boyfriend: what's so funny?
Me: Nothing. Someone just did something.
My boyfriend: Well, that explains it.
Me: Shut up, you wouldn't understand.
Because, seriously, that was a lot of (insane fangirly) awesome. (Though the real Mollymook beach looks beautiful)
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Date: 2006-12-30 04:14 pm (UTC)It was a shame about the weather in Mollymook that day. Despite it being December, which is supposed to be summer here, it was overcast and rained a fair bit. Stupid global warming.
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Date: 2006-12-30 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-12-30 06:55 pm (UTC)Thanks Ben!
*regrets not having a Donut icon*
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Date: 2006-12-31 01:03 am (UTC)Is he ever? ;)
This made me giggle quite effusively. Thanks!
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Date: 2007-01-03 08:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-31 04:29 am (UTC)Um.
Yeah.
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Date: 2007-01-03 08:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-06 04:36 am (UTC)Oh, and I friended you. If that's ok. =]
... years too late I know
Date: 2014-05-19 01:10 pm (UTC)There was so much laughing in this scene that I had to call my housemate out so we could laugh at it's ridiculousness together.
I live in Sydney and my Grandmother is actually in a nursing home in Mollymook. So I have been there, but it doesn't matter what beach you said it was, because this beach is no beach in Australia.
There are no huts on Australian beaches, not like this one, each beach has a life saving club with a brick and mortar building (I mean there are over 10, 000 beaches so it's not impossible) But what confirms this is the Australian Flag, you will not see an Australian Flag hanging from a building in the same form as Americans do. The only time I have seen an Australian Flag on the beach is on Australian day (or perhaps on Bondi, but that place is a tourist mecca).
But I think the biggest plot hole is he will be found in an instant. Mollymook is a one pub town, where everyone knows everyone. There is no fitting in with the crowd, all someone has to do is ask "have you seen an American man with a baby?"(But hey, maybe they do. What do I know, I haven't finished watching it yet.)
This was an awesome read and so funny. Made me laugh so hard.