Wednesday 12 October 2016

DESKTOP 1170 - NINETY MILE BEACH

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. Behind the beach are long sandy dunes that separate the Gippsland Lakes from Bass Strait.

The beach is an uninterrupted stretch of untamed coastline; it does not have any rocky headlands or platforms, and offshore there are only a few ribbons of reef which are periodically covered by sand. In the northern section, the beach runs along a sandbar on what amounts to a series of tidal islands. Behind this are several large lakes and numerous shallow littoral lagoons. The three main lakes are Lake King, Lake Victoria and Lake Wellington, partially contained within The Lakes National Park.

This post is part of the Travel Tuesday meme,
and also part of the Wednesday Waters meme,
and also part of the Outdoor Wednesday meme,
and also part of the Wordless Wednesday meme,
and also part of the ABC Wednesday meme.

11 comments:

  1. What a perfect spot to take a stroll along the warm, sandy shore.

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  2. Wow! Awesome doesn't even cut it. Would love to see it.

    Leslie
    abcw team

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  3. What's not to like? Blue skies. Ocean. Shoreline. Great photo.

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  4. New Zealand has a Ninety Mile beach as well (upper North island) but I believe it's only about 90 kilometres long.

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  5. Sounds amazing, would love to visit there,(in my dreams)
    Best wishes,
    Di,
    ABCW team

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  6. Sounds amazing, would love to visit there,(in my dreams)
    Best wishes,
    Di,
    ABCW team

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  7. and another part.... ;-) thank you
    Have a wonderful ABC-day / – week
    ♫ M e l ☺ d y ♫ (abc-w-team)
    http://melodymusic.nl/abc-wednesday-19n/

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  8. For a minute, I thought you had come over to New Zealand! I didn't know you had one, too!

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  9. Lovely pic. We have a ninety mile beach in New Zealand too!

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