Lake Tyers, Victoria: What are the best attractions and things to do?
The main attractions of Lake Tyers, Victoria, are fishing on the estuary, surfing at Red Bluff and chilling out at Ninety Mile Beach.
Lake Tyers, Victoria, is one of the Gippsland Lakes. Although, technically, it’s not a lake. Oh, and the main reason people visit is for the beach anyway. Confused? Never fear, there’s not an awful lot of complexity to this East Gippsland holiday spot.
Lake Tyers is an estuary fed by several creeks. It stretches from Nowa Nowa on the Princes Highway to a sandbar on Ninety Mile Beach. And it’s that sandbar that turns the estuary into a lake. Most of the time.
Things to do in Lake Tyers, Victoria: Lake Tyers Beach
Occasionally, rainfall is heavy enough over Lake Tyers for the estuary to break through the sandbar. This doesn’t happen very often, and the estuary mouth was once closed for four years.
Hovering by the mouth of the estuary is the townlet of Lake Tyers Beach. This is like a much quieter version of nearby Lakes Entrance.
Things to do in Lake Tyers, Victoria: Fishing
Things to do at Lake Tyers Beach include hiring a boat to go fishing on Lake Tyers, catching flathead, crabs, bream and prawns. But for others this is essentially a beach destination.
You can, of course, combine fishing and the beach. You’ll find plenty of lines cast from the edge of the lapping waves. But not at Red Bluff, slightly west of the town. Red Bluff is a notoriously good surf beach, with consistently big swells pounding in from the Southern Ocean.
Lake Tyers caravan parks
There are two Lake Tyers caravan parks, should you be seeking cheap accommodation in the area. The Lake Tyers Camp and Caravan Park is better located, right at the sometimes theoretical estuary mouth. Powered camp sites cost from $32 and ensuite cabins cost from $79.
Closer to Red Bluff is the Lakes Beachfront Holiday Park.
The centre of what passes for action in Lake Tyers Beach, however is the Water Wheel Beach Tavern. Don’t expect too much modern pub sophistication here, but you can’t go too far wrong with fish and chips in a fishing town.
Getting to Lake Tyers, Victoria
The drive from Melbourne to Lake Tyers is 331km in distance. The Melbourne to Lake Tyers drive should take around four hours and three minutes. The drive from Lakes Entrance takes about ten minutes, and the Bairnsdale to Lake Tyers drive takes around 45 minutes.
More Victoria travel destinations
Cranbourne Botanical Gardens in Melbourne
Buckley Falls in Geelong.
Terindah Estate winery on the Bellarine Peninsula.
Nagambie Brewery or the Mitchelton Estate in Nagambie, Goulburn Valley.
Brimbank Park in Melbourne.