Crystal Cascades
Rainforest swimming holes fed by cascading waterfalls, once the source of Cairns' drinking water.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Crystal Cascades, a chain of rainforest swimming holes above Redlynch outside Cairns, centers on the highest ledge above its deepest pool and the warning locals built around it after a young swimmer never resurfaced there in two thousand fourteen. It traces the creek's quieter past too, as the old water source that gave Redlynch Intake Road its name, and the Yidinji country the valley has always belonged to. Listen at the lower pools, where the water is calm enough for families to wade.
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