Lake Tyers has many places to launch canoes and explore.

The launch site illustrated here is leaving from Long Point ( a popular fishing vantage point), passing Burnt Bridge picnic grounds, Cherry Tree rainforest walk and to the Toorloo Arm Bridge on the Princes Highway.

The course is at times very shallow and care will need to be taken to follow the course of the "river" otherwise the canoe may stick in the mud.

Keep an eye out for the flathead lurkingin the mud and zooming off in a cloud of particles when disturbed.

A four wheel drive will be handy if you don't want to carry your canoes down from the Long Point car park. However it is only 50-70 metres down an easy slope.

Other places to launch canoes would be at Cherry Tree for the small river experience. Nowa Nowa for the upper reaches of the lake and for very quiet protected areas try the little coves around Fishermans Landing or Mill Point.

Canoeing on Lake Tyers

Long Point to Princess Highway Bridge

Another trip completed succesfully in January 2010 when the lake was extremely low.

This was from Long Point up to the Toorloo Arm Bridge. It took about an hour each way and was very pleasant paddling with many insights into the wildlife of the lake evident. Some of the fish disturbed must have been magnificent, we just saw their mud plumes. The whole trip, including car travel, made it a total of three hours from LTB and back again.
Toorloo Arm Bridge and canoe trip

Chris was canoe commander once more and even though some of the snags were close to the surface, as was the bottom of the lake at times, the journey was very pleasant. If you want to know the lake - take up canoeing :-) Again we acknowledge Google maps for this small inserted graphic. To view the whole area and get roads etc then consult Google Maps here. NB Google maps is incorrect as Burnt Bridge no longer exists, the north and south parts of the Burnt Bridge Road are not connected across the Toorloo Arm.