Natural feature
J.C. Slaughter Falls
Seasonal cascade on a forest creek, its flow reshaped by decades of dams and wartime water works.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to J.C. Slaughter Falls in Brisbane's Mount Coot-tha forest turns on who actually shaped the little cascade on Ithaca Creek: the dam crews of nineteen thirteen, the wartime engineers who rerouted local creeks for a hidden United States Navy munitions store, and the nineteen-sixties landscapers who built today's picnic ground. Along the way you'll hear how the site got its name from James Cameron Slaughter, Brisbane's long-serving town clerk. Best visited after a week of solid rain, when the creek briefly remembers its old course.
This audio guide was created using AI.