A PAIR OF SWANS CUT ‘V’ SHAPES in their wake as they head full steam towards a group of water birds plucking silver fish from Lake King. A man and a small boy toss a line from the jetty and a young couple sit close, too engrossed in each other, perhaps, to notice the sky change from pink to mauve and the wide swathes of colour bouncing off the lake.
Nestled between Bancroft Bay and Lake King in Victoria’s East Gippsland, the tiny town of Metung, meaning ‘bend in the lake’ in the language of the Gunaikurnai First Nations people, has long been regarded as a hidden secret by locals. The devastating bushfires of 2019-20 saw the region
