As waterfall lovers, the plethora of falls and crater lakes at the Atherton Tablelands floored us. Apart from the waterfalls too, the Tableland is a very pretty part of Australia. It is full of rolling hills and rich dairy cattle country with clusters of rainforest here and there.
But the waterfalls are stunning. The Cairns Highlands/Atherton Tablelands tourism brochure includes the Barron Falls and the Josephine Falls but these we have already seen and have written about in this blog earlier.
Yesterday and today we visited the Malanda, Dinner, Little Millstream and Big Millstream, Pepina, Millaa Millaa, Zillie, Elinja and Mungalli Falls. We found the Millaa Millaa Falls the prettiest. The aboe photo shows the Millaaa Millaa Falls.
The Little Millstream Falls we found to be the second in beauty. The pool below the falls is large and green. I am afraid the photo does not dfo it full justice. We found it was of surprising natural beauty, much much more attractive then its bigger sister and we thought it suffered from neglect, as people visited the big one thinking the little sister did not deserve the same attention. They are so wrong.
The photo of the big sister. Mind you, the bigger Millstream Falls are the widest single drop waterfalls in Australia so I guess that merits more visits.
The old Palmerston Highway linking Millaa Millaa to Ravenshoe is a very attractive and winding road – a very worthwhile drive.
This is a photo of the Malanda Falls which are in the town itself, you can just stop by the roadside, there is no walk to it, it is very accessible. They have made it into a sort of swimming pool area but done well and tastefully.
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