Climb the escarpment at Metung and the reward is a hot spring at the top of the hill, looking clean over the Gippsland Lakes. Splinter Society is the architecture practice behind it, working in weathered stone and timber so the pavilions read as an extension of the ridge rather than something dropped on it. Wooden barrel baths, stone-rimmed pools, an infinity spring at the summit where the water seems to spill toward the lake. Twilight is the session to book. Below, ten glamping villas sit at the water's edge for anyone who cannot bring themselves to leave. Off-grid, unhurried, high above East Gippsland. You soak, and the whole valley is yours.