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NINETY MILE BEACH - AUSTRALIA Ninety Mile Beach, Victoria, Australia "the second longest beach in the world" LOCATION Ninety Mile Beach is in Australia down on the south eastern coast of Victoria State. From Melbourne the beach is 160 miles to the east. The length of the beach of course is all in the name, but for those who like accuracy, 94 miles . It is an unbroken stretch of sand running from McLoughlins in the south to the Lakes Entrance in the north. OUR VISIT My wife and I first visited Australia back in 2012, flying into Sydney from London. It took me a few days to get over the jetlag (something I didn’t plan for), after which we hired a car for a few weeks with a view to exploring the coast down towards Melbourne. We based ourselves in a motel in Sale for a few days which is about 19 miles from the beach. On the first day there we drove to Seaspray , a small coastal town built on the edge of Ninety Mile Beach . Seaspray is a relaxing seaside town separated from the ...