In hours like this Mallacoota enlarges the merely human conception of Heaven.

            On a clear summers day, the lake gleams intensely blue.  Against this foreground of sapphire stands the occasional emerald of a clearing; but the wide ranges of the horizon is, for the most part, occupied by dun Australian woods and shadowy gorges, wherein vine, tree fern and the jungle growths of Gippsland make covert for lyre birds and bronze wings.