With the Gippsland Lakes at your doorstep, the boating is fantastic. In fact, the Lakes are Australia's best boating waters - safe and sheltered and with plenty of wonderful destinations.

Some houses have private jetty moorings, many have space to park your boat and trailer.

For houses without moorings, you can hire a Riviera Nautic jetty berth for your boat for $25 per night.

There are boat ramps in Metung, Lakes Entrance, Nungurner and Lake Tyers Beach.

If you don't have your own boat, don't worry. You can easily hire a boat from Riviera Nautic - a yacht or motor cruiser for a day or longer; or an easy to handle day boat .

You can book a house-boat package. Simply choose your house and day boat, and as our 'house guest' you save 15 per cent off the cost of the day boat. You can see all the boats on Riviera Nautic's web site shown opposite.

And there are plenty of other boating opportunities on offer - skippered cruises on large yachts or sleek cruisers, on big catamarans or fishing charter boats that take you around the Lakes or off shore.