There you'll find plenty of shady spots beneath the large trees to set up your camp chair and relax, while keeping an eye out for the Lake's many resident pelicans.
Lake Burrumbeet is a shallow but large lake, situated twenty kilometres west of Ballarat and surrounded by grazing land.
The largest of four shallow lakes in the Ballarat region, Lake Burrumbeet covers approximately twenty four square kilometres.
Before the 19th century European settlement of the area, Lake Burrumbeet was frequented by the Burrumbeet balug clan of the Wada wurrung people.
The name "Burrumbeet" is derived from the aboriginal word burrumbidj which means "muddy or dirty water".
There are many aboriginal camp sites around the lake, and artifacts and tools have been discovered on the northern shore.
The area was settled in the late 1830s by the Learmonth brothers, who took up the Ercildoun squatting run north of Lake Burrumbeet.
Lake Burrumbeet was also the scene of a tragic accident when a Ballarat Aero Club Cessna crashed into the lake in 1965.
The plane was carrying a pilot and three passengers. Two were killed when the plane crashed one and a half kilometres from the shore.
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