Millaa Millaa Falls
Basalt-shelf cascade folding into a swimmable plunge pool amid rainforest.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Millaa Millaa Falls on the Atherton Tableland near Cairns traces the money behind one of Australia's most photographed waterfalls, from an eighteen eighty-two packhorse track and a short-lived road-stone quarry to the dairy industry that once built the town nearby. It follows what happened after farming faltered here, and who found new use for a waterfall that costs nothing to film. Stand close to the rock ledge itself before you listen, where the water actually falls.
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