Josephine Falls
Tiered rainforest waterfall with a natural granite slide feeding cool swimming pools.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Josephine Falls near Cairns follows one plant: the black bean tree, whose seed is toxic enough to make you vomit within the hour, growing wild in the rainforest that Josephine Creek runs through. For at least two thousand five hundred years, the Mamu people of this stretch of the Russell River found a way to eat it anyway. It's a story about appetite and stubborn ingenuity as much as about the waterfall itself.
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