Wallaman Falls, Far North Queensland

Now that we're back in Townsville we can continue to explore the area.  We've promised ourselves a day trip to the Wallaman Falls to see the highest, permanent single drop waterfall in Australia.  At Ingham, about an hour north of Townsville through the flowering sugar cane farms, on the Bruce Highway, we turned inland towards the mountains.  After travelling for about 25km through more canefields we started to drive up into the mountains on a steep, narrow, winding road through the we tropical rainforest.  Although cassowaries are common in this area we didn't see any.

About 40 minutes from Ingham we entered the Girringun National Park which is part of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Site.  10km into the park we came to the Wallaman Falls parking area.  The falls lookout is very close to the car park and we were able to take plenty of photos of this spectacular natural attraction.

There's a track down into the gorge but we only walked to the gorge lookout, about 300m from the carpark.  The walk up from the gorge would be pretty exhausting for all but the fittest.