Seals and snakes

As Andrea said yesterday, Lakes Entrance is located where several large salt-water lakes meet the sea. Today we decided to do a 4mile walk which would take in the actual lakes ‘entrance’. The walk started around the town centre and quickly took us into a wooded area. Here our wildlife hunt continued with a lot of success. Between us we saw 6 or 7 lizards and our second snake (don‘t worry I didn‘t get close this time). The snake was lying on some rotting wood to the side of our path, as soon as we stopped it slid silently into the undergrowth. Unfortunately the lizards and snakes were too quick for us to get any photos. Must be our elephant feet scaring them off. We promise we’re not making it up!! We eventually arrived at the lakes entrance, which due to the windy weather meant that the waters were pretty treacherous. The mouth is only 60-70m wide and services three large lakes, so as the tide comes in and out there is a lot of water to move around. We stopped to have our lunch and were just about to go when we noticed some seals jumping out of the water around the entrance! There were quite a few about, most probably hunting for fish as they moved from the sea into the lakes with the tide movement. It was a pretty cool site and I was lucky to get a snap of one mid-flight. The second half of the walk was all on sand along a stretch of the ‘90 mile beach’ and was really tiring. With sand in our shoes we headed back to the motel, happy with our days work ;).


A section of the 90 mile beach


The ‘entrance’


Blink and you’ll miss it - our seal spot

Tomorrow we are driving north up the Great Alpine Road to Falls Creek for our last few days in Victoria. The road rises from sea-level to approximately 1500m altitude. Unwittingly it means running at altitude for a couple of days, so we’ll have to be careful. Hopefully as we missed out on the Great Ocean Road due to bad planning, the Great Alpine Road will go some way to making up for it.