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Erskine Falls

Erskine Falls


Erskine Falls is an impressively tall and slender 30m waterfall located a short drive inland from the coastal town of Lorne.

As far as we were concerned, this was one of the easier falls to visit as the route to the car park was all paved, and the walk to both the upper and lower viewing decks were both short and easy to follow. Administratively, the falls is still part of the Great Otway National Park though it's more on the eastern extremes of the conservation zone.

The upper viewpoint provided us with a top-down view of the falls. And as with most views from this perspective, there is foliage in the way that keeps this view from being anything special. However, we walked down several steps to get to the lower viewing deck. And from down here, we were able to get a frontal view of the falls (see photo above).

Further downstream from Erskine Falls is a primitive track leading to Straw Falls. We didn't take the time to cross the stream and continue down there so we can't say anything more about it. Julie particularly wasn't crazy about going there because of a sign indicating that there were snakes in the area (though there were poisonous snakes resident in practically everywhere else we went in Oz so I wasn't sure why she was afraid on this particular excursion).

Directions: From Lorne, we took William St which eventually became Erskine Falls Rd. The car park is about 10km from the main road (Great Ocean Rd) in Lorne.

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A top-down view of Erskine Falls from the upper viewing deckA top-down view of the falls from the upper viewing deck

The walkway leading down to the base of the fallsThe walkway leading down to the base of the falls

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