Ninety Mile Beach, Victoria
The Ninety Mile Beach is a sandy stretch of beach on the south-eastern coastline of the East Gippsland region of Victoria in Australia. The beach faces Bass Strait and backs the Gippsland Lakes. The beach is just over 151 kilometres (94 mi) in length, running north-eastward from a spit near Port Albert to the man-made channel at Lakes Entrance.
False colour NASA landsat image of Ninety Mile Beach and the Gippsland Lakes
Western edge of Ninety Mile Beach
Ninety Mile Beach at Lakes Entrance
Ninety Mile Beach at Lakes Entrance
The Gippsland Lakes are a network of coastal lakes, marshes and lagoons in East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia covering an overall area of about 354 km2 (137 sq mi) between the rural towns of Lakes Entrance, Bairnsdale and Sale. The largest of the lakes are Lake Wellington, Lake King and Lake Victoria. The lakes are collectively fed by the Avon, Thomson, Latrobe, Mitchell, Nicholson and Tambo Rivers, and drain into Bass Strait through a short canal about 2 km (1.2 mi) southwest of Lakes Entrance town centre.
The Entrance to Gippsland Lakes
Lake King from Shaving Point in Metung
Lake Tyers, Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, Australia
Trio of pelicans at Lake Tyers, Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, Australia