We aren’t having great weather, rather cool, no sun and thick clouds with no wind to blow them away. Lucky no rain today.Pictures all dull and grey, a little bit like myself. We are now in Gippsland Lakes and the Lakes National Park. Mighty Lake waterways. The Gippsland Lakes are a network of lakes, marshes and lagoons covering over 600sq Km. The lakes are separate from the ocean by coastal sand dunes known as Ninety Mile Beach. Bird and marine life thrive here including Dolphins and Pelicans. There are three main Lakes, Lake King, Lake Victoria and Lake Wellington. They are all joined and fed by Rivers that originate in the high country, including many small islands, which are reached easily by ferries or water taxis. A really amazing area. Such a shame we didn’t have better weather.
Took off this morning travelling east 10km up the coast to Red Bluff lookout. Couldn’t see much due to the trees. This is still the continuation of the Lakes Entrance 90mile beach. Actual length is 94miles(151km). A long stretch of continuous Sandy beach.
1km up the coast is Lake Tyers beach. One of the lakes inside the coastal sand dunes. You can see the line of dunes across the lake.
You can walk out on the dunes as the lake ends just to the right and there is a track round to the dunes. My friend in the foreground was keeping an eye on me.
Even found some street art way out here in this sleepy lakeside town.
Drive around the lake. Looking over to the dunes in the distance.
Next stop back to Lakes Entrance through the other side of town to go up the hill at Lakes Entrance Lookout. Looking down through the entrance to the lakes. Really wanted to get out to the left side of the entrance where it meets the coast but we didn’t make it as I will explain further down. Coming in through the entrance the first arm of water to the right is called the Cunningham Arms. Which we will cross over below. The second arm of water in the foreground is called North Arm they are long channels of water. The piece of land between the two arms is actually an Island called Bullock Island. We drove over a small bridge to take a photo (below) looking out to the Lake Entrance at water level.
Taken from Bullock Island.
Now back in town. Shops behind me. This strip of water is the Cunningham Arms. Which I explained in the above photo .
Down the Cumminghame Arm is where all the commercial fishing boats come in. PT walking down the pier to see who is selling fish but especially shrimps.
Looking down into one of the fishing boats who just happen to be selling shrimps as well.
He’s got his bag of shrimps but unfortunately they are very small ones so there was lots of preparation dressing them. But they were yum for lunch and enough to put on top of our steak tonight.
Now to tell you about crossing over the Cunninghame Arms walking bridge. The only way you can drive out to the ocean beach is further up the arm.
Now on our way walking over the Cunninghame Arm bridge over to the ocean beach.
Looking up the Arm
Looking down the other way.
Coming off the other end
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Walking over the dunes to the beach.
On the Ninety Mile Beach. Goes for miles either way.
Up the beach
Down the beach
Back over the dunes to walk back over the bridge. From here there is a 5km walking track out to the point of the entrance to the lakes . The only way out there is to walk this track and back as there is no road there just the beach or the track. I said above that I would’ve loved to have gone to the entrance. It would have been great but just too far to walk 5km at this stage, especially as the weather wasn’t the best.
Walking over to town side.
Out on Bullock Island we passed this old buoy which they have used as a decoration of the area.
Now back to town along the Marina and back to camp.
Ad we couldn’t get out to the entrance on the beach to get a good photo up close I took a screen shot of google maps. The whole area is very impressive but so hard to explain what it really looks like. One needs to go up in Helicopter to see it all but not for me.
Showing the Lake Entrance Cunningham Arm first on the right then Bullock Island in the middle and bottom left corner North Arm.
This shows the lake system on the other side of the lake entrance.
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