It is my favourite walk in tropical Australia. The term walk might be a bit misleading. It is a 2km plus boulder hopping expedition, which taxes the thighs and knees but one which anyone with reasonable fitness and a thirst for adventure can achieve. Most guests take 4 or 5 hours for the trip packing a picnic lunch into a daypack. Wear an old shirt, swimmers, hat and old shoes - my old Dunlop volleys proved perfect footwear for the constant rock hopping and creek wading.
Directions are simple.
Follow the track from the lodge to the creek past an impressive array of fan palms. Then head up the creek scrambling over large, sometimes mossy boulders, wading through pools and occasionally, with relief, finding an easier path along the bank. Just when you've decided you will never make it, the falls are spotted through the forest canopy, the roar increases step by step and soon the icy cold plunge pool beneath the falls is reached. Time for lunch and contemplation of paradise. I sat alone.