Lakes Entrance - arrived Sunday, 20th Feb

After much decision making, we decided to make our next destination Lake's Entrance, instead of Bairnsdale (although, Bairnsdale did look a nice spot as we drove though!?). And this time we relented and decided to  book into a C Park that advertised a "Jumping Pillow"! I think the only one on the Victorian East coast was in Lake's Entrance! So, in we pulled ... to be greeted by the sight of a 'deflated' pillow! Oh, darn! It was a nice looking park tho', on the edge off the eastern arm of the lake, with modern facilities and very clean and tidy and the lady assured us that the pillow would be in action on Tuesday night, after being replaced. And ... it was!

 The replacement was a morning's entertainment in itself.  A little excavator came in and dug a trench all the way around the torn 'pillow' and the new attachment tubing/rods etc were put in and pillow laid in place and attached and sand put back over edges! Simple! As long as you hand over $10,000 for the replacement! ($15,000.00 for the original putting in of the pillow, and they only last for 3 - 4 years. Mostly due to UV damage). The manager's of this park evidently had to talk fairly hard to get the company who owns the park to put the replacement in! Anyway, the kids have certainly made the most of it for the last 24 hourrs. I even had a jump while not many people were about. I'm about as flexible as aa 'stick' and I thought my knees and back would 'snap', so i didn't try anything too adventurous!

This CPark has a circuit of camping blocks around the play area and close to amenities, and they try to put families with kids in this area. You can see us on the LHS behind the photo of Lily.

Series of lakes extends behind the narrow 'spit', at rear



The Entrance


 Lakes Entrance is at a relatively small gap in a thin "spit" of land that the ocean from Bass Strait comes through to form an extensive series of lakes.
This is fairly shallow in a lot of spots, but a dredge goes fairly often to maintain a channell foor the town's substantial fishing fleet. Not to mention the tourist boats.

Fishing fleet at town wharf

The town, as a lot of these coastal towns are, is set up for tourists, with walkways/cycle tracks etc. Today we decided to do the town tour by bicycle, the wind had finally dropped and the sun finally came out for a while today.

Everyone else boycotted the photo in front of "Bass Strait' ocean!

 Swans obviously love the lakes in the area, as we have seen quite a few, often in their family groups - of 2 adults and 2 cygnets. They must be used to people, as they sit on the waters edge and feed ad preen themselves with a crowd of onlookers.