Australia 2003

AUSTRALIA

Lakes Entranceby

Gary Lewis

Lakes Entrance

Where I live

Looking East

Looking West

Lakes Entrance is located on a lake system that connects to the sea through a man made channel. There are islands in the lakes.

The lakes stretch over 100km to our west and are fed by 5 main rivers. They are separated from the sea by a narrow strip of sand dunes. The ocean beach is 90 miles long.

Looking out the entrance with a fishing boat coming in.

The town with lakes on both sides.

We have the largest fishing fleet in Australia.

New Year FireworksLooking from our deck

2pm in our street during a bushfire 30 km away.

Sunrise from the deck

Flooding in town

Sometimes rains cause the lake to flood into the town. There is a lot of concern about climate change making sea levels rise and more regular floods like this.

Our back garden – the big trees are in our land. One of my favourite flowers is grevillea – a native

These bowerbirds are a pest in the veggie garden as they eat leafy plants & pull them out.

Male Female

King parrot Black swans & young

CockatooRainbow lorikeets

We feed lots of different birds on our deck

Dolphins

Grey Kangaroo

Sugar glider

Rufous bettong

We sometimes have a big lifesaving carnival on our beach

I go fishing occasionally

Outback Australia

And Sydney – of course

Metung – a small holiday village

Some of our seafood

With our friends on holiday