Lakes-Explorer: Wildlife Tours & Water-Taxi

Lakes-Explorer: Wildlife Tours & Water-Taxi 🦭Closed till later in the year due to health issues…. Please contact Lakes Entrance Visitor Information Centre for details on other Tour Boat operators.

Normally run Educative WILDLIFE BOAT TOURS (Marine enviro…) or 🛟 WATER-TAXI Service to jetties. WATER-TAXI: To visit remote waterside locations. Pricing per one-way trip: max 4 persons (prefer max of 3 adults). Lakes Entrance - Ocean Entrance (Flagstaff Jetty). $25 per trip ($10pp). Lakes Entrance - Barrier landing, Ocean Entrance, Rigby Island or Fraser Island: $30 - $40 per trip ($10-$20pp) one

way. Lakes Entrance - Wyanga Jetty: $50 per trip ($20-$25pp) one way. Other locations possible.. WILDLIFE TOURS:
2 or 3 hour: Harbour, Ocean Entrance & Rigby Island tour. Include short guided walking tour. 2 hour = $100 for up to 3 passengers ($33-50pp). All trips subject to suitable tides, weather and availability. Departure times vary each week. Pay on board. OCEAN ENTRANCE WALKING TOURS:
2-3 hours. Sunday mornings (June & July) as part of East Gippsland Winter Festival. Booking essential: www.egwinterfest.com.au

More details. www.lakes-explorer.com.au

The 90 Mile Beach.145km: Red Bluff to McLaughlin Entrance (near Yarram).Ocean Entrance to McLaughlin Entrance/Beach 137k...
27/08/2025

The 90 Mile Beach.
145km: Red Bluff to McLaughlin Entrance (near Yarram).
Ocean Entrance to McLaughlin Entrance/Beach 137km of sandy beach.
Ocean Entrance to Red Bluff, 8km.

Photos: Google.
MacLaughlins Entrance into Corner Inlet waterways (Western end). Natural entrance.
Ocean Entrance to Lakes Entrance (Eastern end). Constructed entrance.

We have been regularly monitoring Fur-seals at the ocean entrance for many years….New record number today at 12.30pm: 12...
20/08/2025

We have been regularly monitoring Fur-seals at the ocean entrance for many years….
New record number today at 12.30pm: 127 Fur-seals, possibly a few more out in the ocean.
Most Fur-seals are species Australian Fur-seal and occassionally a few Long-nosed Fur-seals (pointy nose) and Sub-Antarctic Fur-seals (light color on the chest). There are no Sea-lions at ocean entrance.

ABC Science ran an on-line poll to find the most UNDER-RATED native animal in Australia.65,000 responses….WINNER: Rakali...
16/08/2025

ABC Science ran an on-line poll to find the most UNDER-RATED native animal in Australia.
65,000 responses….
WINNER: Rakali (Native water rat).
It got my vote!
Regularily seen early mornings swimming around rock walls. Webbing between the toes for swimming. Dark brown to black in color. Distinctive white on end of it’s tail. It is a native animal, just like a possum or a koala….

SUNDAY 31 AUGUST : 9am.Educative bird walk at Macleod Morass conducted by BLEG…
09/08/2025

SUNDAY 31 AUGUST : 9am.
Educative bird walk at Macleod Morass conducted by BLEG…

Great to see Marine Mammal Foundation conducting monitoring and research on Gippsland Lakes Dolphins for 2 weeks via MMF...
27/07/2025

Great to see Marine Mammal Foundation conducting monitoring and research on Gippsland Lakes Dolphins for 2 weeks via MMF Research vessel (White Centre Consol). This weekend, MMF invited volunteers to assist with monitoring dolphins swimming/passing Bullock Island.
About 11am today, a large pod of dolphins were monitored (research photos of dorsal fins) travelling from Metung to Ocean Entrance.

The recently exposed sand flats of Lake Tyers have been quickly invaded by shorebirds including Crested Terns, Pied Oyst...
23/07/2025

The recently exposed sand flats of Lake Tyers have been quickly invaded by shorebirds including Crested Terns, Pied Oystercatchers, Pacific Gulls, Coots etc….

Interesting to watch (from the water) several Gippsland Lakes projects underway:> Construction of Oyster farm framing ne...
20/07/2025

Interesting to watch (from the water) several Gippsland Lakes projects underway:
> Construction of Oyster farm framing near Barrier Landing and south side of Flanagan Island.
> New sand beaches for shorebirds, using pumped sand: Ocean Grange, Pelican Island and Rigby Island.

Latest Bathymetric chart (water depth) of ocean entrance. To summarise… Orange: 3m, Yellow: 4m, Light green: 5m, Dark gr...
14/07/2025

Latest Bathymetric chart (water depth) of ocean entrance.
To summarise… Orange: 3m, Yellow: 4m, Light green: 5m, Dark green 6-9m, dark blues and purples: 10-15m scour-hole caused by tides and current flow. Produced by Gippsland Ports.

Thought to be extinct…Rare species of echidna found recently by wildlfe cameras in remote Indonesia…This echidna highlig...
30/06/2025

Thought to be extinct…
Rare species of echidna found recently by wildlfe cameras in remote Indonesia…
This echidna highlights the evolution of a species.

Check of Fur-Seals at Ocean Entrance on Saturday afternoon. Total seen 83. 56 on rocks, 27 swimming.
29/06/2025

Check of Fur-Seals at Ocean Entrance on Saturday afternoon. Total seen 83.
56 on rocks, 27 swimming.

Great place to visit…Food & Coffee vans next door.
23/06/2025

Great place to visit…
Food & Coffee vans next door.

World Ocean Day: 8 June.
08/06/2025

World Ocean Day: 8 June.

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Berth 34, Western Harbour Marina
Lakes Entrance, VIC
3909

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Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

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