Hopkins Falls (Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia)

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Hopkins Falls

Hopkins Falls is a short but very wide waterfall just a few minutes from the coastal town of Warrnambool.

We treated this waterfall as sort of an appetizer to the famous (and deservedly so) Great Ocean Road. Despite the on-and-off squally rains during our visit in November 2006, the falls had low flow but still had enough to be satisfying more or less. I reckon in a year with more normal rainfall, the falls would be very impressive (see the falls in full flow here).

From the car park for the falls, there's a short walk leading downhill towards the base of the falls. We didn't spend much more time here other than to take photos given the state of the falls and the fact that the weather started to turn bad (and very windy) again when we got there. So I'm sure there are probably more ways to enjoy the falls and say a bit more about it, but the circumstances made it less attractive for us to do so.

Directions: From Warnambool, we took the Hopkins Hwy north to Wangoom Rd on the right. We took Wangoom Rd until we turned right onto Hopkins Falls Rd. Actually, our map and GPS tracks seemed to indicate that we veered slightly off of Wangoom Rd (not sure if they re-routed the road or not) paralleling Wangoom Rd until we reached Hopkins Falls Rd. Once on Hopkins Falls Rd, we followed it right to its car park.

Note that we didn't have much difficulty finding the falls because it was well signposted throughout this drive.

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Hopkins Falls from the top The falls from the top

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November 15, 2006

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We visited this falls in August 2010. The recent wet weather had the falls at a very high flow, and the spectacle was bringing in many of the locals ...

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