Barron Falls
Tiered rainforest cascade over four hundred feet, flow largely tamed by an upstream hydro plant.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Barron Falls near Kuranda follows the hillside power station upstream, built in nineteen thirty five as Queensland's first hydroelectric plant and the first underground station in Australia. It traces the weir and the mile-long tunnel bored through the mountain that quietly decide how much of the river reaches the cliff in front of you. You will hear how the modern station, finished in nineteen sixty three, reroutes that water sideways through solid rock. Listen from the lookout on a quiet afternoon and consider what visitors saw here in the eighteen nineties.
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