Jardine River National Park
The Jardine River National Park is a national park in Queensland, Australia, northwest of Brisbane and about northwest of Cairns, on the tip of Cape York Peninsula. The park and reserves encompass the traditional country of several Aboriginal groups including people from the Atambaya, Angkamuthi, Yadhaykenu, Gudang and Wuthathi language and social groups. The area is a living cultural landscape, with places and features named in Aboriginal languages, story-places and story-beings, and occupation and ceremony sites throughout. Today the traditional owners retain a strong and continuing interest, through their traditional rights to, and responsibilities  for, the land, in the protection and management of the area. Coastal features. Coastal features include: Vegetation. The Jardine River National Park features a complex array of vegetation types, many of which, with the exception of minor occurrences in limited zones close to the south, do not exist elsewhere. The forest types which occur in the National Park can be broken down into nine broad categories: Closed Forests. Simple notophyll vine forest - Simple notophyll vine forest with Leptospermum fabricia and Melaleuca species - Araucarian vine forest - Mesophyll palm forest. Closed Scrub. Asteromyrtus lysicephala scrub - Ericaceae (Epacridaceae) scrub. Closed Heath. Grevillea pteridiifolia  heathland. Closed Sedgeland. Gahnia sieberana sedgeland. Open Forest. Eucalyptus nesophila forest - Eucalyptus nesophila / Eucalyptus tetrodonta forest - Eucalyptus tetrodonta forest. Low Open Forest. Asteromyrtus symphyocarpa / Leptospermum fabricia forest. Open Heath. Nepenthes mirabilis / Asteromyrtus lysicephala heath. Tall Shrubland. Melaleuca viridiflora shrubland - Grevillea glauca shrubland with Eucalyptus species. Low Open Shrubland. Baeckea frutescens / Asteromyrtus lysicephala shrubland. Waterfalls. The park contains several waterfalls and rock pools, including Twin Falls, where the waters of Elliot River and Canal Creek meet, Fruit Bat Falls, Savo Falls and Elliot (Indian Head) Falls.