Babinda Boulders
Granite-boulder swimming hole on a rainforest creek, its legend-haunted pool fenced off downstream.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Babinda Boulders near Cairns follows the Yidinji legend of Oolana, a woman said to have drowned herself in Babinda Creek rather than lose the warrior she loved, and the pool locals still call cursed because of it. It traces how that story collided with a modern safety record on this same stretch of water, and why rangers built a separate swimming hole upstream. Listen for the sound of the creek working through the rocks below the platform before you decide where to swim.
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