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A "enormous" elephant seal has made a splash at a Victorian holiday hotspot but authorities are warning the public not to get too close, as the giant creature isn't as friendly as he seems.

Henry the Southern Elephant Seal popped up at Blairgowrie in Victoria's Mornington Peninsula today after visiting Point Lonsdale at the weekend.

The giant seal doesn't make the most graceful of entrances as a video shows the animal breaking a fence as he waddles up the beach.

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"There's a fence broken, he's been wreaking havoc through the boats we have on the beach here," foreshore manager Max Patton said.

But he is certainly popular with tourists and locals alike.

"Incredible, I can't believe we are so close to it and how big it is," one person said.

"Came down and really surprised I was expecting a little seal… I've never seen anything so big," another local added.

"It's enormous," another said.

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In the heat of the afternoon, it seemed the young seal had a bout of Monday-itis as he spent hours lazing on the shore.

Seal vs servo: A tale of shattered windows 

Henry has already made a splash in other Victorian towns after the curious creature made his way across roads at Point Lonsdale and even broke two windows at a local service station.

"He came to visit us at the BP," Neo Ussawathawornthai, whose parents work at the service station, said.

"Two windows were broken. I thought it'd be one window but seems two windows.

"The police say probably he saw his reflection.

"Can we send the bill to anyone?"

Police were forced to respond to the seal and keep onlookers at bay while wildlife workers guided Henry back to the water.

'Don't call out to him': Warning as 'wild animal' is unpredictable

The giant animal might seem harmless, authorities are reminding onlookers to stay at least 30 metres away from him.

Not only is there the risk of him biting but you can also cop a hefty fine for getting too close.

"Don't go under the barricades, keep your dog on a lead, definitely don't try and feed him," Patton said.

"Don't call out or say anything to him. He's a wild animal and we want to treat him as one."

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Henry made the massive journey to Australia from Antarctica and looks like he's setting up shop for a while.

"We expect that he might be here for four to six weeks," Patton said.

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A man has been charged over a crash that killed a young woman in Melbourne.

Police said the car was travelling along Stintons Road at Park Orchards when it left the road and hit a tree after 2.30pm yesterday.

A 21-year-old woman from Doncaster was in the front passenger seat at the time and died at the scene.

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The driver of the car, a 22-year-old man from Doncaster, was taken to hospital with serious injuries.

Police have since charged him with culpable driving causing death, dangerous driving causing death, negligently cause serious injury, recklessly cause injury and three counts of reckless conduct endangering life.

Two men from Doncaster were also injured in the crash and taken to hospital.

One of the passengers, a 20-year-old man, had life-threatening injuries.

Meanwhile, the other passenger was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

The 22-year-old driver will appear in Melbourne Magistrates' Court today.

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Police have named the second man who drowned at Glenorchy, near Queenstown.

Jonathan Jordan Young, 35, from New South Wales, in Australia, died at the swimming spot on January 19.

He was assisting a child when he got into trouble, police said.

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The drowning was the second at the same spot in Lake Wakatipu in less than a week after Wānaka man Linkin Kisling died on January 13 saving his 10-year-old son.

Police earlier said Young had been in New Zealand three days before the accident.

He was with his fiancée at the time. His parents and brother flew to New Zealand the next day and were at the site when his body was recovered.

It occurred during a spate of drownings across New Zealand including five deaths in the Auckland area and the deaths of a father and son at a remote Coromandel beach on January 18.

Queenstown Lakes District Councillor Niki Gladding said angry and upset locals were continuing to patrol the popular swimming beach to warn people of hidden hazards at the site.

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"It's a bit windy at the moment, which equals cold so that will keep people out."

However, people were paddling in the water on Monday afternoon. The water was shallow but had a steep drop off a few metres from the shore.

"They just need to make a couple more steps then they've over the ledge."

New signage was installed at the site on Friday, but more effective signage was being organised by the Glenorchy Community Association, she said.

"We've noticed that people come down here they're not understanding the level of danger and risk.

"The undertow is at a point that's completely calm. It looks so benign."

The patrol would continue until new signage was in place.

"The general idea is to keep everyone out of the water at the moment.

"We just can't take another death."

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Glenorchy Community Association chairperson John Glover said the community did not believe the council signage installed on Friday was sufficient and new graphics were being put together on Monday.

It was hoped they would be installed in a day or two.

"The challenge is how to depict it graphically and maybe have it understood without words because not everyone has English as a first language."

The community also wanted a review undertaken of the response to the Kisling's drowning to assess whether Young's death could have been avoided.

If two incidents had happened in a workplace someone would have faced charges, he said.

"Most people say the second drowning was entirely avoidable and are feeling pretty bad about that."

There was also concern that most of the safe swimming focus around the country was aimed at beaches and not necessarily lakes, rivers and inland waterways.

"It raises a bigger question of whether there should be a role taken on by an authority to make a difference."

This story originally appeared on Stuff and has been reproduced with permission