Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-10-19
A NINETY MILE A
n Lovely Seashore ON whose Sands the
Australians Reyel.

The Lovely seashore on Whose Sands the
Australians Reyel.
The love Of the seashore seems to be
absolutely universal. To young PEG,
pie especially is trip TO the margin
of the great deep a source of delight.
The Gippslanders are no exception 10
this rule, Though they have SO much
delightful scenery readily accessible,
the excursion which is far and away
the favorite with them is still to the
ocean shore, where they can inhale
the ozone Of the fresh sea air, and
watch the great rollers of the Pacific
come tumbling in upon that intermin.
able beach which TANKS the whole OF
the lake district. To picnic on the
sands and to wasder about. searching
among the sea wrack for delicately
tinted shells, seems TO afford as much
amusement for the grown up folks as
for the children.
1t cannot be merely the change
from inland scenes and life that gives
this fascination TO the shore, for those
who live all their lives beside the sea
are as much under its influence as
those to whom a sight Of the ocean is
but an occasional treat. Poets have
sung and men Of letters have dis.
coursed about the sea, but not one OF
them yet has told us the secret of this
love for il, this all prevailing desire to
get near it, as if acompanionship were
there found. This love for the ocean
shore fills the excursion steamers,
which run from Sale and Bairnsdale
in the summer time, with crowds Of
bright faced p~icnickers.
1t was in company with one Of these
troops of holiday makers that | made
acquaintance with the ocean entrance
to the lakes, and with those broad,
smooth sands which stretch so far.
Landing at New Works, we toiled
over a quarter of a mile OF low sand
dunes, and found ourselves on the
Ninety Mile beach. There is no ex
aggeration in the name of this long
stretch of sand and Single. Broken
only by the narrow entrance TO the
lakes and by the Snowy river, il ex.
tends along the southeast coast of Vic.
toria for fully the distance that its
name implies.
There can be no doubt that at the
time when this part of the continent
last emerged from the sea, the lakes as
we see them now had no existence,
and the rivers of the district reached
the sea in the usual way. The con.
slant ocean currents from the Ant
arctic which the coniiguration of the
land in this region concentrates and
therefore gives extra force TO, aided
by the nature Of the sea bottom close
in shore, have created the long stretch
of sand dunes which form now the
seaward barrier of the lakes.
In this work they have been aided
by the wild storms which are gener.
ated every winter in the comparative.
ly high ATTITUDES Of the south Pacific,
and which, approaching Australia
from the southeast, impinge directly
on this coast with a force only exceed
ed by the great winter storms of the
north Atlantic. Along the foot of
these dunes lies the Ninety Mile beach,
preserving everywhere the long line
of its very shallow curve almost I'M
broken by any projecting point
through all its long stretch, and SO
seeming to the eye Of the observer
wherever he may take his stand TO
run in a perfectly straight line on
either hand, up or down, as far as
sight can reach. San Francisco
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