Oh, What a Beautiful Mornington

Once a year, my sister and I like to try out a new horse riding place. We love our regular places, but you never know what else might be out there. Besides, it's a good way to see different parts of the state, and possibly meet some fabulous new people and horses.

Today we headed for the Mornington Peninsular. The countryside was beautiful, the place was well-run, the horses were well looked after, the staff were friendly and professional, there was a nice place to have lunch and the food was well-prepared and tasty. After a rather slowish morning ride on somewhat overly bored horses to the beach (we'll stick with Airey's Inlet), they did go out of their way to give us better mounts for the afternoon forest ride, which was for experienced riders only. Even then, however, their idea of a challenging ride was a lot less zippy and wending than what we're used to, especially on our regular Daylesford rides (still the best - thank goodness they're slated for next month's ride.)

So it was a good place, an okay place, a friendly place, but not fabulous. For the money we paid, which was way more than what we usually fork out, we were expecting something more memorable.