Art Gallery Cafe overlooks the site of a once busy inland port on the Latrobe river, that connects to the ocean, now a marina.
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The open cut mine extends in a circle of 5 miles diameter or more across the whole valley like a moon-scape
Yallourn open-cut coal mine - locals still believe it is not polluting!
Sale Highway Sculpture `Red Sails in the Sunset’by International sculptor Viktor Cebergs. 2005
Bairnsdale roadside market - lots of plants and local produce - I bought a great T shirt for James - get a laugh if he wears it OS
Austtralian Native Black Swans. This little girl was very busy talking to the swans and seemed to think they would obey her! 
Gang Gang Cockatoos at Brandy Creek - just a few miles north of Warragul
This shows how big these Gang Gang cockatoos are
Captive Cockatoo - was apparently hungry so it was fed
Our Australian native animal the Echidna which is very shy and hard to photograph usually! We were lucky he was on the grassy verge of a slow speed section of the highway, but only went a few meters off the road into the bushes.
Nyerimiling Homestead was a timber logging site - timber was pushed over cliff edge to beach. 
Steep cliff down to the lakes from Nyerimiling - name m is Aboriginal for "many lakes". 
Wedge tailed eagle in the house - I saw a real one flying while overlooking the cliff! 
1920s wood panelling Nyermilang
First glimpse of Lakes Entrance
View of the entrance from road down to the town
Dredger trying to keep entrance deep enough for fishing boats to clear the bottom from silting up due to low river inflows tolakes.
Bullock Island near the outlet, middle distance - sandy is to be the site of an RMIT Uni. Environmental Research Centre"
grass lakes entrance opposite motel
Promenade along Cunninghame Arm ends abuptly at private property despite sign!
Marina Center of Lakes Entrance
Footbridge to the ocean sandbar
Path over sand dunes to the Ninety Mile Beach
shark spotting tower for life savers
Lakes Entrance town from ocean side
Shops and cafes and motels line the very long main street in Lakes Entrance - from the ocean sand bar.
More of Lakes Entrance from Ninety Mile beach sand bar.
Waiting for winery cruise of lakes but engine dead- offerd bus trip but we declined as we had a car.
The place for lunch at Metung Marina
Metung-large fig tree
Road to a very small collection of about 20 houses in the bush at Nungurner - off the main highway.
Lake Tyers beach pub
"Lake Tyers beach" 
Paynesville on the Gippsland lakes- fishermans haven