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Morning light over Bottom Lake, Mallacoota...the view from our site.
Bottom Lake is home to a bird sanctuary. While flocks of water birds rose into the air and then settled on sandbars in a cacophony of song and beating wings, languid pelicans watched on.
Reflective images and silence in calm waters of the lake on a windless day.
White sands stretch north from Bastion Point to the inlet where the Tasman Sea and Bottom Lake meet. Over a period of 10 years, a group comprised of local organisations and individuals attempted to prevent the building of a large breakwater and boat ramp south of Bastion Point. They were concerned about the environmental impacts of the proposed construction but they lost their fight in December 2014.
Layers of colour emerge from the wet sand.. Mudstone, sandstone, silica and shales laid down over millions of years. Apparently most of these Ordovician rocks in Victoria are of deep water sedimentary origin and have been squeezed, exposed, baked, covered and eroded by currents and other environmental factors.
Stunning beach!
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