Eggbert's Travels

Tuesday 26^th February 2013

SHE SAID:

Geoff was chief chauffeur on a tour around the western lakes today. We headed out to Nyerimilang Park then Metung & Paynesville.

It was a nice scenic & water dominated day.

Near Paynesville are the 2^nd longest Silt Jetties in the world. Having never heard of, let alone seen a silt jetty we just had to go! They were basically long thin spits out into Lake King; one we could drive to the end of, the other was actually now an island.

 

Nyerimilang Heritage Park

Cove at Metung with plenty of boats tied up!

Me on the 2nd longest silt jetty in the world-
along with a heap of school kids that had cycled up
from Paynesville

So named for the "close shave" to get through the gap
between the sand bars & land

Paynesville harbour

 HE SAID:

When in doubt about the correct term for a bit of land protruding out into water I have decided that it is now probably going to be called a spit. There are lots of other terms (point, peninsula, isthmus, tombolo, bar, sandbank), but really, do we use them all correctly? Plus I reckon that spit has that certain something that everyone just knows.