Eugene Was Here

03/06/2026

The shortest day of the year calls for the boldest move. A hot Cossack Sauna on the beach & cold dip in the bay!

Join me at Aspendale Life Saving Club for a community gathering to mark the winter solstice.

Awaken your senses, warm your soul, and embrace the season with your neighbours.
⌚️Sunday June 21st - 3pm - 5pm
🏖️Aspendale Life Saving Club
✅ Free event, open to all
🔥 30-minute sauna slots — bookings essential
🏊 Cold bay swim to follow (optional, but you'll regret skipping it)
🚿Warm showers and change rooms in the club when your done
👉 Book your sauna spot here - https://www.trybooking.com/DMVUR

This event is all about staying connected, which can be hard during winter. Reconnect with friends, meet new people, share a special experience!

The shortest day of the year calls for the boldest move. A hot sauna on the beach & cold dip in the bay!

Join us at Aspendale Life Saving Club for a community gathering to mark the winter solstice. Awaken your senses, warm your soul, and embrace the season with your neighbours.

⌚️Sunday June 21st - 3pm - 5pm
🏖️Aspendale Life Saving Club

✅ Free event, open to all
🔥 30-minute sauna slots — bookings essential
🏊 Cold bay swim to follow (optional, but you'll regret skipping it)
🚿Warm showers and change rooms in the club when your done

👉 Book your sauna spot here - https://www.trybooking.com/DMVUR

This event is all about staying connected, which can be hard during winter. Reconnect with friends, meet new people, share a special experience!

Special thanks to Eugene from Cossack Sauna for providing the saunas!

See you on the sand ❄️🔥

30/05/2026

Beach Sauna ♨️

29/05/2026

Blessings of the bay 🙌

23/05/2026

Saturday morning was one of those mornings that makes you grateful to live bayside 🐬❄️

After weeks of traffic chaos, roadworks, detours, and everyone collectively losing their minds at temporary lights… today felt like the bay saying “sorry comrades.”

Frosty morning. Glassy water. Locals out on paddleboards. Dolphins are swimming and dancing around them like something out of a documentary.

And of course Dutch the legendary 3-legged dog cruising around like the mayor of the beach.

Just one of those beautiful local moments that reminds you why we love this area despite the wind, the traffic and Melbourne doing Melbourne things.

Bloody magic morning ✌🏼

18/05/2026

Traffic on one side. Bliss on the other.

15/05/2026

Alright comrades…

We can spend all day roasting the traffic, the roadworks, and whatever fresh government decision has turned a 7-minute trip into a Soviet endurance exercise.

But every now and then, the bay just shuts all that noise up.

Dolphins at sunset last night, close in, just cruising through...

We’ve been seeing them almost every day now, mornings and arvos.

Right near where people swim, walk, stress, scroll, argue about parking, and lose their minds over traffic.

And for a minute, all the nonsense disappears.

No rail replacement bus.
No detour.
No council drama.

Just salt air, calm water, sunset light, and these beautiful creatures reminding us we actually live somewhere pretty bloody special.

It’s easy to get stuck in the local chaos. God knows there’s enough of it. But moments like that are a good reminder that this suburb is more than congestion and complaints.

We’ve got the bay.
We’ve got the sky.
We’ve got those ridiculous pink and orange sunsets.
And somehow, we’ve got dolphins popping by like casual local legends.

That’s a gift.

We are lucky.

Enjoy the view, comrades 🥔

04/05/2026

🎵 “CONES, DEBT, 5 YEAR PLANS & BROKEN DREAMS (Melbourne Anthem 🎵

Day 5 of Station Street Shutdown and I'm feeling blue... 🚧

I’m no longer driving to Aspendale — I live on Nepean Highway now.

45 minutes from Mentone. FORTY. FIVE.
I’ve had sauna sessions, cold plunges, and full existential crises in less time than this commute.

That same bloke with the lollipop… judging you… spiritually
- Cones breeding overnight like they’ve got a government grant
- One guy digging… slower than my kids putting on shoes
- Fifteen others supervising like it’s a bloody Soviet board meeting

Meanwhile, I’m in the car with:

- 3 kids screaming like it’s Eurovision
- Yogurt detonated like Chernobyl in the backseat
- Google Maps having a full mental breakdown

“Detour ahead”
YEAH CHEERS DARREN, NOW I’M IN FRANKSTON SOMEHOW???

Dropped a track from inside this mobile prison.

02/05/2026

🎤 “IS IT YELLOW BIN NIGHT, COMRADE OR NOT?” — Eugene & The Aspendale Collective 🫡

OK comrades… Never thought I'd say this, but I wrote a song.

A few of you asked for daily sanity check-ins after my post in the Aspendale Community Hub on Friday over the traffic situation...

So I went looking for drama in the last 24 hours.

And the truth is… not much happened.

Which is very rude, because I had the rhythm ready, the sarcasm warmed up, and the group page was suspiciously calm.

So naturally, I did what any normal, stable local would do…

I turned the usual Aspendale noticeboard madness into a song.

Because if there’s no helicopter, no mystery bang, no lost cavoodle, and no one screaming about bin night, what are we even doing here?

Apparently, our suburb is held together by:

🚁 helicopters that are either “hovering for 4 minutes” or “all night”
💥 mystery bangs that could be fireworks, gunshots, bins, thunder, or a transformer having an emotional breakdown
🚗 “to the driver of the white SUV…” posts that narrow it down to literally everyone in Victoria
🐈 cats that are never lost, just conducting neighbourhood audits
🟡 and the eternal question of whether it is yellow bin night or the end of civilisation

We’ve also got the classic:

suspicious cars that are usually just a tradie, a nurse, or someone trying to eat a pie in peace
dog poo posts treated like a constitutional crisis
parking wars outside people’s houses, as if the kerb is private property
school pickup behaving like Mad Max with lunchboxes
and councillors, admin, and half the suburb being told to fix traffic, weather, dogs, helicopters and vibes all at once
It’s honestly a miracle any of us survive the noticeboard.

So I turned the whole beautiful mess into a song.

I called it “IS IT YELLOW BIN NIGHT, COMRADE?” — Written by Eugene & The Aspendale Collective

Enjoy, comrades 🫡

26/04/2026

A few words from Geoffrey Daniel.