Zillie Falls, Qld
Narrow rainforest waterfall dropping through a fern-curtained basalt gorge on a volcanic plateau.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Zillie Falls, on the Atherton Tableland outside Cairns, traces the labourers who opened up the surrounding rainforest: the eighteen eighty-two bushman blazing a mule track to the Herberton tin field, the cedar cutters who camped in the forest's pockets afterward, and the dairy farmers who turned what was left into pasture. It follows how a stretch of Queensland rainforest thick enough to defeat a man on foot became butter-factory country within two generations.
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