Lake Barrine
Rainfall-filled volcanic crater lake ringed by rainforest, reached by boat from a lakeside teahouse.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Lake Barrine, a crater lake on the Atherton Tablelands near Cairns, opens with a puzzle: a fish with no natural way to reach a sealed volcanic lake, yet thriving there anyway. It traces the isolation that turned this crater into a closed world, and follows the same fate to the neighboring Lake Eacham, where an introduced fish drove a native species to extinction. Best heard from the teahouse deck, built in nineteen twenty-six, looking out over water that looks perfectly still.
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