Mallacoota

After driving through country and coastal NSW on Sunday, mom and I stayed a night in isolated Mallacoota, just over the Victorian border. How isolated? It's bordered on 3 sides by a national park; the other is the picture postcard inlet shown above. Mostly deserted in winter, one can imagine it thronged with caravans in summertime.
Pelicans perch on Mallacoota's quiet foreshore.
This inlet was 'discovered' by white settlers in 1840.
Though a long day of driving to Melbourne awaited, mom and I spent a few hours wandering along Mallacoota's serene waterfront.
Eastern grey kangaroos outnumber Mallacoota's winter human population.
Mom stands in front of a magnificent, 400-year-old Mallacoota Blue Gum. A dying species, there's only a few dozen left in the world.
Locals of nearby Gipsy Point (that's how they spell it, even though the village was named for a 19th-century schooner named 'Gypsy') enjoy a lovely morning ...
... as does this mob of 'roos.