Lake Whadie Café “If you haven’t tried an Indian this would be a good spot to start.”

Lake Whadie Café    Café & Indian Restaurant    1 Princes Hwy, Lucknow VIC 3875                      Phone: 5152 6060       Email: lakewhadie@hotmail.com                                                                        Tuesday to Saturday -  9am to 3pm then from 5pm until late; Fully Licensed (BYO Wine Only)

Never judge a book by the cover - a surprise awaits you

“Just for a coffee but I’m going back for a MR D special”

MR D  for  Food and Coffee   196 Main Street  Bairnsdale VIC 3875 

Phone:  5152 7124        https://www.mrdfoodandcoffee.com.au
Breakfast 7am to 11.30am Lunch 11.45am to 3pm. Dinner Thursday, Friday & Saturday 6pm to 8pm.

Alfresco Seating in Nicholsen St

Beware when Burning Off - are you confused?

Having it would seem, managed to negotiate another Fire Danger Period in the East Gippsland region without any major fires, it is now a time to think about preparations and works to minimize the risk of fires in the coming season 2018-19. Gee it comes round quickly doesn’t it? This may seem early but work now can minimize work later when perhaps you have other commitments to manage simultaneously, and ensure that your land is well prepared to minimize the fire risk.

Hendo's Cafe: Good to return to a favourite and see if things change - “Plain Jane no nonsense food - with a smile”

Hendo’s Cafe

77-81 Main Street, Bairnsdale.  Ph: 5152 6742  Hrs: Mon - Fri  5:30- 3:00  Breakfast until 10-30am

It is sometimes good to return to an old favourite venue and see if things have changed, at Hendo's the award winning concept still works.... “Plain Jane no nonsense food - with a smile”

Time for Coffee in a Café with Culture

The Café Culture series seems to go from strength to strength and on Friday 12^th May it returns to its latest and arguably best venue, the Albert & Co Function Centre at Bellevue on the Lakes.  

This performance is in the do not miss category and entitled “Red Dress & The Sugar Man”.

Lakes Entrance's iconic Bullock Island put to the sword

As a Facebook contributor put it “ What have they done to Bullock island ? I think it is a maze of pine posts with limited parking what’s your thoughts..”   The responses included… “Building Donald Trumps wall; Waiting for them to grow; It’s to stop the crabs pulling tourists into the lake; Bloody confusing; Shire must have shares in pine factory”. I could go on with many more adverse comments.

Light hearted in some ways, I am all for a joke, but what has been done is past a joke. Let’s look at this from another perspective. Bullock Island desperately needed an upgrade, not football pitches please, just a clean-up, the provision of some basic amenities and the road kept flat and easily accessible for all. Access to the water’s edge for parking and fishing etc.

The Barn at Kalimna West - a pleasing oasis from the rush of life

The Barn:     Princes Highway Kalimna West. (in R.E.A.L. Garden Centre)  

Breakfast:  Wednesday to Sunday 8am onwards:  Lunch: Wednesday to Sunday 12 noon til 2pm Bookings and Enquiries   0438 018 625

“A pleasing oasis away from the rush of life”

Highway Entry

The Barn Cafe

“Old venue -new owners - new menu - the view still the best around.”

Kalimna Pub/Bistro  - Lakes Entrance  1 Hotel Rd, Lakes Entrance, VIC, 3909  (03) 5155 1202                                 

The Kalimna Hotel is an historic hotel, refurbished and just west of Lakes Entrance on the Kalimna's cliffs overlooking one of the finest ocean and lake view's Gippsland has to offer.

Another First for East Gippsland – Truck Drag Racing at Gippsland Motorplex

First, let me confirm that I am a petrol head, if it has an engine and wheels or floats and in some cases both, I am interested. I love the sound of a V8, the smell of “Castrol R” and the look of older vehicles. (my age group!). Trucks have a unique place in our world, without them we would have little in our shops, far less on our dinner tables, a very long wait for spare parts for our “little wheels” and virtually no petrol/diesel to run them.  But truck drag racing is a comparatively new Motorsport, it is not only a great spectacle, but a lot of fun.

Proposed Cycle Tourism Track/Trail Facility in Omeo Region – Is it really viable?

I have some serious concern at the claimed benefit (detailed in Lakes Post 28.2.2018)  to the Omeo region of the proposed cycle facility currently approved for funding from public funds. Below are a set of statistics which are pertinent to this issue and which raise more than a few questions.  Bear in mind that this facility is mainly on DELWP land and will, I am advised, be operated by private enterprise!  All this with a cost, again from advice, of  $6.2 M.
Don’t get me wrong I am not against any worthwhile and viable tourism/sporting facility anywhere in our region, and especially in the Omeo area which needs an injection of tourism, but sustainable viable tourism, not one destined to fail at cost of the ratepayer.