Visiting Lake Entrance, Australia
A Tribute to the 20th Century
By: Phoenix Arrien
The gateway to far east Gippsland on Australia’s southern coast is a watery one. Lakes Entrance is a small town at the entrance to the sea where water flows into three large lakes, the largest inland water system in the Southern Hemisphere.
If there is something puzzling to young children, it is a lifelike statue. Along the foreshore of the busy holiday township of Lakes Entrance are a series of wooden carved statues marking Australia’s involvement in the wars of the 20th Century.
This includes a statue of a soldier called Simpson who carried wounded off the battlefield on his donkey. Young child patted Simpson, then poked his donkey and watched for a response. None happened so, with the blessed short attention span of a young child, he turned his excited attention to the boats coming in along the wharves.
The Lakes fishing fleet is one of the largest in this part of the world and well worth a look. It became the reason we lived on fish, of the freshest kind, during the three days we spent there.
More tomorrow….
