Caching Lakes

Today following a yummy camp breakfast we set out to locate the geocaches around Lakes Entrance itself. These took us to different vantage points around the town, including up in the less touristy areas. Some spots gave us great views. Others taught us something about features of the town.

One such lesson was about the carved tree stumps – six of them along the Esplanade. They were created by a local chainsaw artist using the remains of trees planted to commemorate locals who went to war. Some of the trees were dying, so this was a legacy to keep part of the tree.

We enjoyed fish and chips overlooking the water near the footbridge. We soon had an audience of sea gulls. Inspired by the collective names of pelicans, I researched gulls. Apparently they can be called a colony, squabble, flotilla, scavenging, or gullery. With food involved, they were certainly more reminiscent of a squabble out of those collective descriptions!

After lunch we walked across the footbridge and explored some of the lakeside coastline, the kids enjoying beach combing for shells, crab shells and all manner of other assorted evidence of sea life.

Back at the caravan park, the kids had a dip in the pool, but it was freezing cold, even for them, so that was short lived. Later in the afternoon a colourful sunset was evident back at the footbridge.