Behana Gorge Walking Track
Rainforest gorge walk to a granite waterfall pool, following a working water pipe to Cairns.
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This guide to Behana Gorge, in the rainforest south of Cairns, follows the sealed walking track that was built over the water pipe supplying the city since nineteen fifty seven. It traces the Yidinji name for Behana Creek, Tringilburra, meaning sparkling water, and the two cyclones that have battered the gorge in the past two decades. You'll pass crocodile-zone waters, granite two hundred fifty million years old, and cassowary habitat on the way to Clamshell Falls. Keep to the marked swimming pools and bring your own water.
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