Historic swing bridge on the Latrobe River (built 1883), near Sale

Sale (including Ramahyuck, Ninety Mile Beach, Woodside, Seaspray, Golden Beach, Loch Sport and Gippsland Lakes National Park)
Major service centre in West Gippsland
Sale, situated at the head of the Thomson River, above the junction with the Latrobe River, and at the head of the Gippsland Lakes system, is 211 km south-east of Melbourne via the Princes Highway and five metres above sea level. Its economy is now intimately interwoven with the Longford Oil/Gas installation and the associated Bass Strait Oil fields. Other industries are the BTR Nylex factory, the West Sale Aviation facility and the RAAF military base at East Sale. Grazing, dairying, agriculture and fruit growing are still important industries in the countryside.

Both famous Gippsland explorers, Paul Strzelecki and Angus McMillan, passed through the immediate area around 1840. The first white settler was Archibald McIntosh who arrived in 1844 and established his 'Flooding Creek' property on the flood plain country which was duly inundated soon after his arrival.

In the 1840s, drovers heading south to Port Albert crossed Flooding Creek and were confronted with the difficult marsh country around the Thomson and Latrobe Rivers. A punt operated across the Latrobe River until a toll bridge was erected.

The first town plots went on sale in 1850. When the new settlement was gazetted in 1851, the traditional name of the area, 'Flooding Creek', was dropped in favour of 'Sale' - a tribute to General Sir Robert Sale, a British army officer who won fame in the first Afghan war before being killed in battle in India in 1845.

The town greatly benefited from the 1851 gold rush at Omeo as it was situated on the Port Albert to Omeo route and was an important base for the goldfields, until the arrival of the railways. It was also an important service centre for East Gippsland and the Monaro Plains of New South Wales. A building boom took place c.1855-65.

In 1863 the population of Sale reached 1800 and it became a borough. The courthouse opened the following year. Shops, hotels and offices spilled over into Raymond Street and the first Anglican Church was erected on the site now occupied by St Anne's and Gippsland Grammar School. The Gippsland Times newspaper was established in 1861 while the first Star Hotel and the Criterion Hotel were built in 1865.

In terms of access, the first reasonable road from Melbourne arrived in 1865 and Cobb and Co established a rough-and-ready 24-hour coach service linking Melbourne and Sale. The Latrobe Wharf was built in the 1870s and two hotels emerged to exploit the new centre of activity. It was located near the present swing bridge although little is left.

Anthony Trollope visited Sale in 1872. Writing of the experience in Australia and New Zealand (1873) he spoke of the town's 'innumerable hotels' and concluded from his impressions that the Aborigines had little chance of surviving as a race. Children's author, Mary Grant Bruce, was born in the town in 1878.

A two-storey post office, with clock tower, was built in 1884 (it was demolished in 1963). The Sale gaol was completed in 1887 and it operated for 110 years until it was replaced by a private prison at Fulham. The building still stands but is now privately owned.

With the growth of shipping on the local waterways and the Gippsland Lakes (and the establishment of a railhead at Sale in 1879) schemes emerged to develop Sale as a port. The construction of the Sale Canal (complete with turning circle) duly commenced in the 1880s, thereby linking the town via the Thomson River and the Gippsland Lakes to the open sea. It was completed in 1890. Other elements were the swing bridge, completed in 1883, a high wharf, and a launching ramp which still exists in the heart of the city. However, neither the bridge nor the canal created the desired surge of trade and the depression of the 1890s soon engulfed the town. Sale became a town in 1924 and a city in 1950.

After oil was discovered offshore in 1965 the town experienced a boom period when it became the service and residential base of the Esso-BHP oil and gas exploration and development program. The unprocessed oil and gas is pumped through 700 km of undersea pipes to Longford, 19 km south of Sale. There the hydrocarbons are removed and used to produce LPG and ethane. The gas is piped to Melbourne and the oil to Westernport Bay and thence to Geelong and Altona from where it is shipped interstate and overseas. An oil and gas display centre in Sale outlines the formation, exploration and drilling processes. Esso's Longford gas plant was the site of a major explosion on 25 September 1998 which killed two employees and crippled the state's gas supplies.

The March Labour Day weekend witnesses the famous Marley Point Overnight Yacht Race which is the longest overnight inland yacht race in the world. It begins near Sale and concludes at Paynesville. A fishing contest is held at Lake Gutheridge every Easter and the Sale Music Festival at Gippsland Grammar School in June. The Sale Art Exhibition is held over August and September while the Sale show falls in October.

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Tourist Information
The Central Gippsland Tourist Information Centre is located on the Princes Highway. It is open daily and provides brochures, news, maps, tourist newspapers, information on local accommodation, the popular Howitt Bicycle Trail and a range of Australiana souvenirs. Toilets are located at the centre, tel: (03) 5144 1108, or, free-call, tel: (1800) 677 520.

The town mall in Sale

Sale Mall and Historical Museum
Sale possesses an attractive pedestrian mall, notable for a number of local artworks, especially Annemieke Mein's wall of fame. The Sale Historical Museum is to be found in the former Sale borough offices at 130 Foster St, built in 1863, and still possessing the original council chamber furniture.

Gippsland Art Gallery
At the corner of Foster St and Desailly St is the Gippsland Art Gallery which is a major regional gallery featuring changing exhibitions, tel: (03) 5142 3372.

Criterion Hotel
With its impressive facade, window architraves and mouldings, the Criterion Hotel, built in 1865, is one of the oldest hotels in Gippsland. The ornate cast-iron, two-storey verandah with its delicate lacework was erected in place of the original timber structure later in the century. It is located at the corner of York St and Macalister St.

Our Lady of Sion Convent and other religious buildings
Our Lady of Sion Convent for girls, in York St, was established by six French sisters and six Irish priests at the end of the nineteenth century. Built in the style of the gothic revival between 1892 and 1901 it is a red-brick, three-storey structure with adjoining chapel, slate roof, dormer windows and spires adorning the towers. The assembly halls and rear wing were added in 1938 and the residential wing in 1953. Nearby on Raglan Street is Bishop's Court (1903), the official residence of the Bishop of Gippsland. St Paul's Cathedral and Rectory opened in 1885.

The historic AMP Building in Raymond Street

Sale Heritage Walk and Heritage Drive
Two excellent brochures 'Sale Heritage Walk' and 'Sale Heritage Drive' are available from the local tourist information office (a cassette tape accompanies the latter). They provide great detail on the substantial number of buildings and sites of historic interest in the area. The AMP Building, which is part of a distinguished collection of buildings in Raymond Street, stands at 118-124 Raymond Street and, when completed in 1930, was described as 'the most notable addition to the architecture of the town'. The Cobb and Co stables, dating back to the 1870s, are also in Raymond Street. The brick and slate roofed courthouse, opened in June 1864, is still an important part of the expanded complex in Foster Street.

Port of Sale
The 'Port of Sale' features a boat ramp at the northern end of the historic canal which links Sale to the Gippsland Lakes system and the open sea.

To access the Port of Sale follow Foster St (the Princes Highway) westwards from the York St roundabout towards Melbourne then turn left into Park St at the Wellington Shire Council building. A short distance along is a turnoff on the left to a parking area and boat ramp by the canal.

Victoria Hall and the Sale Swing Bridge
Victoria Hall, built in 1879, has witnessed performances by noted Australian musical personalities Percy Grainger and Dame Ada Crossley. Grainger's father designed an elegant, wrought-iron and unusual 45-metre, swing bridge 5 km south of the town (on the South Gippsland Highway), which spans the Latrobe River at its junction with the Thomson. The bridge's centre rests on cylindrical steel columns which once allowed it to swing open twenty times a day to allow the passage of steamers between Sale and Melbourne. It ceased operations in the 1930s. The cogs and wheels operated by the bridge keeper can still be seen today.

Sale Cemetery
Angus McMillan was buried at Sale in 1865. His tomb is to be found at the Sale cemetery, 5 km north-west of the town. McMillan, who was responsible for some of the worst massacres of Aborigines in the local area, subsequently became the Victorian Protector of Aborigines. It is hardly surprising that there is a book on his life by P.D. Gardner titled 'Our Founding Murdering Father'.

Wellington Fine Art and Craft
Wellington Fine Art and Craft is a co-operative venture which displays paintings and craft by over 120 Gippsland artists, including limited edition prints by Annemieke Mein. The shop is open every day and is situated at 254 York Street, tel: (03) 5144 6688 or email art&craft@vic.australis.com.au

Sale Cemetery
Andrew McMillan was buried at Sale in 1865. His tomb is to be found at the Sale cemetery, 5 km north-west of the town. McMillan, who was responsible for some of the worst massacres of Aborigines in the local area, subsequently became the Victorian Protector of Aborigines. It is hardly surprising that there is a book on his life by P.D. Gardner titled 'Our Founding Murdering Father'.

Lake Guthridge

Lake Guthridge and Lake Guyatt
As the Princes Highway (Foster St) enters Sale from the west (from Traralgon) it reaches a roundabout at the intersection with York St. Drive through the roundabout, continuing eastwards along Foster St, and take the immediate right into McIntosh Drive which follows the shoreline of Lake Guthridge, eventually rejoining Foster St at a point further east. As you follow McIntosh Drive, Lake Guthridge is to the left and you will pass Lake Guyatt to the right. On the eastern shores of both lakes are a series of parks, some free tennis courts, a playground, swimming pool and a fauna park which contains wallabies, peacocks and some other animals in a wire enclosure. Pelicans, cormorants, water hens and black swans, the latter functioning as a symbol of a tour about the town, are found on the lakes.

Powder Magazine
An old powder magazine (built 1864-65) is located on the shore of Lake Guyatt, via Lacey St. With its massive walls, buttresses, barrel-vaulted ceiling and timber dowels used to fix the flooring, it was designed to contain any explosion of powder and project it upwards rather than outwards. The building was also placed adjacent Flooding Creek, in order to provide a buffer from bushfires.

The powder magazine was only rediscovered in 1995 and its restoration is being overseen by Sale Rotary Club. There are plans to convert it into a goldfields museum. Two bridges connecting it to the Wetlands Trail (see next entry) have been completed and picnic facilities provided.

Sale Common and Wildlife Refuge
Just south of the lakes is Sale Common and Wildlife Refuge. This freshwater marsh is a noted breeding spot for birds. It supports high populations of a variety of waterbirds, birds of prey and small mammals. When times are good there are over forty species, including the dusky moorhen, pelicans, magpie hen, royal spoonbill plovers, kingfishers, brown hawks and eastern swamphen. Many are migratory, Unfortunately, continuous drought has reduced water levels of late and the birdlife is, at the moment, finding the area less rewarding. However, the 400-metre boardwalk stroll is still very much enjoyable. Sale Common is used for educational and interpretation purposes.

To get there follow Guthridge St to its southern end, turn right into Lacey St then left into Maxfield Rd, cross the bridge over Flooding Creek and park at the next corner.

RAAF Base
Sale is also home to an RAAF base which was used to train bomber pilots in World War II and which is now used by the aerobatic team, the Roulettes.

Kilmany Homestead
Kilmany Homestead, on Pearsondale Road, 4 km south-west of Sale, is a timber house built in the 1840s by Scottish pastoralist, William Pearson. An impressive two-storey, stuccoed mansion was erected by Pearson's grandson next to the original building in the first six years of the twentieth century. It is not open to the public.

Gippsland Lakes
The Gippsland Lakes are a group of coastal lagoons which were formed when the ocean's sand deposits created lengthy sandspits, low-lying sand islands and dunes which eventually formed a barrier (Ninety Mile Beach) separating Bass Strait from the calmer waters they enclosed. The rivers which flow into the area deposited silt and clay which divided the inland water into a series of lakes and swamps. In the 19th century graziers took up land in the area, destroying much natural bushland. By that time there was no reliable point of access to the ocean. Thus an artificial entrance had been created by 1889 (see entry on Lakes Entrance) to allow permanent navigable entry. This new mouth both lowered and stabilised water levels in the lakes which are fed by a number of river systems - the Latrobe and the Avon (which flow into Lake Wellington), and the Mitchell, Nicholson and Tambo (which flow into Lake King).

Taken together the lakes constitute the largest navigable inland waterway in Australia. The major bodies of water - Wellington, Victoria and King - cover 320 km of shoreline and encompass 340 square kilometres. They are the centrepiece of a distinctive and environmentally significant regional landscape of wetlands and flat coastal plains with its own unique landforms, vegetation and fauna.

The Gippsland Lakes possess features of international, national and state significance. The Mitchell River delta, for example, is an eroded digitate delta which is considered a site of international geological significance. It extends southwards from the area around Bairnsdale along the western shore of Lake King to Eagle Point Bluff. From this point it takes the form of a series of long, narrow, winding jetties of silted sediment which extend eastwards out into Lake King for 8 km (see entry on Paynesville).

Also of geomorphological interest are Cunninghame Arm (south-east of Lakes Entrance) which is a relict of a narrow channel that connected the Lakes to the ocean before the creation of the artificial entrance in 1889; the unique ecology and geomorphology of Lake Reeve with its extensive saltmarsh areas; the Tambo River delta which extends 2.5 km south-west into Lake King (although it is rapidly eroding); the Latrobe delta, protruding over 2 km into Lake Wellington, which is formed by silt trapped in reedswamp; McLennans Isthmus (a long, broad sandy promontory that separates Lake Victoria and Lake Wellington) and McLennans Strait (a deep narrow residual channel that connects these two lakes).

Owing to the permanence of the main lakes and the reasonably regular flooding of the adjacent wetlands, the ecosystem is an important habitat for over 40 000 ducks, swans, coots and other waterbirds, particularly in periods of drought. Lakes Wellington, Victoria and King are permanent deep saline wetlands supporting populations of migratory seabirds, including the little and fairy terns. Lake Reeve is an extensive intermittent saline wetland of international zoological significance which provides a highly significant habitat for up to 12 000 migratory wading birds, making it one of the five most important areas for waders in Victoria. Other noted bird populations exist at MacLeod Morass, Sale Common, Clydebank Morass, Dowd Morass, Jones Bay and Lake Bunga. The latter is a relatively small coastal wetland that is fresh to brackish, supporting waterfowl, little tern, hooded plover and the white-bellied sea-eagle. Other good birdwatching sites to the north are Blond Bay State Game Reserve, located behind Lake Victoria, and Colquhoun Forest. Vegetation around the lakes is varied, including swamp paperbark, reed and salt-marsh vegetation such as glasswort, shore rush, sawsedge and salt grass.

Parts of the Lakes system are heavily used for commercial and recreational fisheries and for other water-based recreation, while the immediate hinterland has been developed for agricultural uses and limited residential and tourism purposes. Almost all of the lakes are accessible by boat and boat-launching facilities are available at Hollands Landing, Loch Sport, Paynesville, Eagle Point, Toorloo Arm, Mill Point, Seacombe, Goon Nure, Lakes Entrance, Nowa Nowa (see entry on Lakes Entrance), Lake Tyers, Nungurner, Metung, Nicholson and Johnsonville. For those without a boat, fishing trips and boating tours of the lakes and rivers are available from Paynesville and Lakes Entrance. Black bream are especially plentiful in the waters of the Gippsland Lakes.

At the present time salinity (caused chiefly by the alteration of the ocean outlet) is destroying shoreline vegetation which, in turn, is causing shoreline erosion and thus accelerated deposition in the lakes. Vegetation changes are also depleting the wetland fauna, including some endangered bird species and the breeding habitats for some fish species - some also rare. Moreover, wind-borne salt is affecting vegetation near the shoreline and destructive algal blooms have become a recurrent problem. Industrial and domestic waste disposal, run-off and a sewage treatment works are also affecting the waterways.

The lakes contain many archaeological sites, including shell middens, scarred trees, occupation sites, burials and axe-grinding grooves.

Marlay Point
24 km east of Sale is Marlay Point on Lake Wellington, the starting point for the longest overnight inland yacht race in the world. This annual 80-km race to Paynesville, with over 500 entrants, takes place each long weekend in March. Marlay Point is generally a popular destination for people interested in water activities such as sailing and fishing.

Ninety Mile Beach (including Woodside, Seaspray, Golden Beach and Loch Sport)
Ninety Mile Beach is a lengthy stretch of coastline which takes in an area just east of Port Albert to the western side of Lakes Entrance. The major settlements on, or proximate to, the coast are Woodside, Seaspray, Golden Beach and Loch Sport.

The area's roads are good and Ninety Mile Beach offers excellent surf fishing opportunities as the entire area is rich in bream, salmon, whiting, garfish, flathead, snapper and mullet. Ninety Mile Beach is also a fine spot for a long walk although strong rips, sharks and rough waters make the sheltered shores of the Gippsland Lakes a preferable spot for safe swimming. Whales and dolphins are also known to frolic close to the shore. The RAAF Roulettes aerobatic team, based at Sale, train over Ninety Mile Beach where they can sometimes be seen rehearsing. Public toilets and a range of sporting activities are available at all of the major townships.

Birdlife is prolific all along the coast. Species include crimson and eastern rosellas, yellow-tailed black cockatoos, swamp harriers, hawks, blue wrens, silver eyes, red-browed finches, eastern spine bills and many other honeyeaters. The usually migratory rainbow lorikeet remains along the beach's coastal parks all year owing to the temperate climate and the plenitude of coastal banksia.

55 km south-west of Sale along the South Gippsland Highway is the small town of Woodside which has hotel and motel accommodation, take-away food, a holiday/caravan park with cabins, petrol, autogas and groceries. 10 km from the township of Woodside is Woodside Beach where a surf life-saving patrol operates during the summer season.

Seaspray is a peaceful coastal resort located 32 km due south of Sale. It is ideal for surf and creek fishing all year round. There is bed-and-breakfast accommodation and a well-equipped caravan park with cabins. A good sealed road connects Seaspray to Golden Beach which lies 28 km north-east along the coast. Basic tent sites exist in the dunes between these two towns and it is possible to walk through the sand dunes to Golden Beach. Petrol, autogas, groceries and take-away food are available and the town boasts a post office, picnic-barbecue areas and playgrounds. The beach is patrolled in summer and Merrimans Creek offers a safe swimming alternative. A little over 10 km away are a heliport and a supply port for the oil rigs.

Golden Beach has holiday cottages, a golf course and coin-operated public showers. Petrol, groceries and take-away food are available. On a fine day, Gippsland's offshore field, Barracouta, can be seen.

Not far to the south-west, along the road to Seaspray, is Delray Beach where the artificial reef is a noted fishing locale.

6.4 km from the roundabout at Golden Beach, en route to Seaspray, is the wreck of the Trinculo which may be seen at its best after a king tide. This 318-ton barque, built in 1858, measured 42 metres in length with a beam of 7.2 metres. In 1879 it struck a sandbar 30 metres offshore. All of the crew, including the captain's wife and sixteen-month old baby, reached the shore and one crew-member, a Mr Lefevre, was awarded a silver medal by the Royal Humane Society. A monument at Golden Beach was built from a water tank salvaged from the wreck by a local.

Loch Sport is located 54 km east of Sale on a narrow strip of land between Lake Victoria and Lake Reeve, opposite Ninety Mile Beach. Hotel and motel accommodation is available and there is a holiday/caravan park with a variety of units and cabins. Petrol, autogas, groceries and take-away food are available and there is an RACV service centre and a golf course. Loch Sport has a marina, jetties and boat ramps and it is an access point for boaters and waterskiers wishing to use the lakes. It is also an access point to Rotamah Island (see next entry) and horseriding tracks are available to the west.

The Lakes National Park
The Lakes National Park is one of a number of parks which lie around the 400 square kilometres of estuaries, lakes and coastal lagoons to the east of Sale. It occupies 2390 ha of low-lying land covered with woodlands and coastal heath, including Sperm Whale Head, Rotamah Island and Little Rotamah Island.

Dingoes were once numerous in this area but were eliminated by graziers early in the 20th century, when sheep were introduced. However, the scarcity of livestock feed led to the departure of most graziers by 1926 and the following year saw a 1451-ha nature reserve created at Sperm Whale Head. Early in the 1930s dolomite was extracted from Dolomite Swamp, at the eastern end of the present parkland, for usage as agricultural lime. However, high transport costs proved the exercise unsound. Bark was also stripped from black wattles in order to obtain tannin for the tanning of leather. The National Park was proclaimed in 1957 with the inclusion of another 668 hectares and the two islands were added in 1978. The natural bushland, much affected by graziers, has since regenerated, and much of the wildlife has returned to the area.

The flora of the park is varied. On the coast are marram grass and hairy spinifex while the swampy areas around the lakes produce saltmarsh plants such as sedges, rushes, glasswort and swamp paperbark, although the latter is one of the plants that has gone into decline with the increased salinity of the lakes. On the hills behind the dunes and further inland are woodlands of saw, coast and silver banksia, manna gum, peppermint, yertchuk and but-but. The understorey consists of bracken and heath plants such as tea-tree, fringe-myrtle and sweet wattle. The park also boasts excellent wildflower displays, particularly in October. One of the most common wildflowers, Thryptomene micrantha, can only be found in the Gippsland Lakes region and in Tasmania.

Fauna includes kangaroos, wombats, pigmy, ringtail and brush-tailed possums, koalas, echidnas, potoroos, swamp wallabies, swamp rats, bats, short-nosed bandicoots, the white-faced dunnart, hog deer, the marsupial mouse and the rare New Holland mouse, although most Australian mammals are nocturnal and can thus be difficult to spot.

The park also boasts over 190 species of birds which are listed in a brochure available from the Visitor Centre. These include royal spoonbills, black cormorants, black swans, white-faced herons, bronze wings, the rufous night heron, rainbow lorikeets, southern yellow robins, regent honeyeaters, yellow-tailed cockatoos, superb blue wrens, emus, birds of prey and the uncommon fire-tail finch, said to presage the coming of fire in Aboriginal legends. There is a bird-hide at Lake Killarney where waterbirds such as black swans, pelicans, greves, ducks and cormorants can be observed. Emu Bight and Point Wilson are also good birdwatching spots.

The Lakes National Park (Melway 528 J6) is 60 km east of Sale. To get there head south of town along the South Gippsland Highway for 7 km and turn off at Longford, following the main road east through Dutson and Loch Sport and straight into the park. At the Visitor Centre, located near the entrance, you can obtain information about the park and register for camping.

Access to Rotamah Island is by boat from Paynesville or Loch Sport or via a footbridge from Ninety Mile Beach. Another footbridge then leads on to Little Rotamah Island. Visitors can camp at, or stay in, the old homestead by prior arrangement. Camping on Rotamah Island is restricted to groups who book in advance.

There is also small campground at Emu Bight, near the shore of Lake Victoria. It has toilets, fireplaces and picnic tables. Booking is required for holiday periods. Fees apply at all campgrounds. Murphy Hill, Point Wilson and Pelican Bay have picnic grounds with tables and toilets. Point Wilson is particularly popular as it is the site of an original settler's homestead and it is possible to see some friendly kangaroos in an intimate setting.

The Dolomite Walking Track, on Sperm Whale Head, follows the perimeter of Dolomite Swamp to Pelican Point and Oil Bore Landing. There is also a self-guided nature walk circuit at Lookout Tower, near Lake Reeve, and a number of short tracks in the Point Wilson area. Birdwatching and natural history courses are offered by the Royal Australian Ornithologists Union.

No dogs or cats are allowed in the park and visitors are advised to beware of snakes and to take care when swimming off Ninety Mile Beach, owing to rips and sharks. For further information call the Parks Victoria Information Line on 131 963.

Active recreation and nature based tours are conducted by the following operators: Early Bird Tours for birdwatching and bushwalking (tel: 03 9882 6935); Emu Tours for birdwatching,, bushwalking, and nature studies (tel: 02 4236 0542), First Track Adventures for bicycle riding and bushwalking (tel: 03 5634 2761), Gippsland Outdoor Education Service for bushwalking and cross-country skiing (tel: 03 5122 1213), Off The Beaten Track for bushwalking, and coach/bus tours (tel: 03 9432 1536), The Outdoor Education Group for bicycle riding and birdwatching (tel: 03 5774 2617), Wandering High Gippsland Tours for bushwalking and vehicle/4WD tours (tel: 03 5147 2402), YMCA Venturequest for bicycle riding, bushwalking and caving, tel: (03) 9480 1177.

The Bataluk Cultural Trail
The Bataluk Cultural Trail extends from Sale in the east, through Stratford, Mitchell River National Park, Bairnsdale, Metung, Lake Tyers, Buchan and Orbost to Cape Conran in the west. It follows the trails and trading routes of pre-colonial days and focuses on elements of Koorie history and culture, including Dreamtime stories, traditional lifestyles, the Den of Nargun, Legend Rock, Aboriginal Keeping Places, archaeological sites such as canoe trees and shell middens (some dating back 10 000 years), cultural centres of the region, and aspects of European invasion, colonial settlement and present-day existence. At Sale the focus is on the Wetlands Information Centre of Victoria and the Ramahyuck Aboriginal Corporation.

	Tourist Information
	Sale Visitor Information Centre 8 Foster St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 1108, 1800 677 520
	Motels
	Captains Lodge International Motel 46 Princes Hwy P.O. Box 419 Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 3766 Rating: ***
	Midtown Motor Inn York St P.O. Box 444 Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 1444 Rating: ***
	Sale Motel Cnr York & Stawell Sts Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 2744 Rating: **
	Swan Motel Princes Hwy P.O. Box 80 Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 3096 Rating: ***
	The King Avenue Motor Inn 20 Princes Hwy P.O. Box 1010 Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5143 2222 Rating: ****
	The Princeton Motor Lodge Princes Hwy P.O. Box 1010 Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 6599 Rating: ***
	Wetlands Country Motel/Hotel Princes Hwy Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 3222 Rating: **
	Aspen Motor Inn 342 York St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 3888 Rating: ****
	Sale Hacienda International Motor Inn Cnr Princes Hwy & Raymond St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 1422 Rating: ****
	Hotels
	Crown Hotel Raymond St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 3075
	Gippsland Hotel York St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 4003
	Ringers Club Hotel Foster St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 2021
	Sale Hotel Raymond St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 4008
	Star Hotel Raymond St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 2024
	Bed & Breakfast/Guesthouses
	Bon Accord Bed & Breakfast 153 Dawson St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 5555 Rating: ****
	The Creek Bed & Breakfast 3 Foster St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 4426 Rating: ****
	Caravan Parks
	Thomson River Caravan Park South Gippsland Hwy Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 1102 Rating: ***
	Sale Motor Village Princes Hwy Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 1366 Facsimile: (03) 5144 2785 Rating: ***
	Restaurants
	Captains Lodge International Motel 46 Princes Hwy P.O. Box 419 Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 3766
	Catchadelli House Raymond St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5143 1911
	El-Sombrero-De-Speedy-Mexican Cuisine Raymond St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5143 1855
	Gaslight Room Restaurant & Bistro York St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 4003
	Giovanni's Restaurant York St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 1933
	Gippsland Palace Asian Restaurant Macarthur St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 7399
	Isabella Restaurant Cnr Princes Hwy & Raymond St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 1422
	Midtown Motor Inn York St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 1444
	Post Espresso Bar Foster St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 3388
	Raglan Pizza Restaurant Raglan St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 6866
	Rainbow Chinese Restaurant Raymond St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 5200
	Sale Motel Cnr York & Stawell Sts Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 2744
	Sale Pizza & Pasta House York St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 4775
	Sporting Legends of Sale Restaurant York St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5143 2345
	The Fishermans Hut Raymond St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5143 3361
	The Gippsland Dragon Restaurant Cunninghame St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 7088
	The Jubilee Restaurant of Fine Dining Princes Hwy Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5143 2222
	The Princeton's Meeting Place Princes Hwy P.O. Box 1010 Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 6599
	Variations Family Restaurant Gippsland Centre Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 5077
	Wetlands Country Motel/Hotel Princes Hwy Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 3222
	Cafés
	Cafe Rossi Raymond St Sale VIC 3850 Telephone: (03) 5144 5855