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Murray Falls is a roughly 20m waterfall tumbling over worn-smooth rocks towards boulders and water-sculpted rock pools at its base.
When we were there, it seemed like we came at the right time. That was because the afternoon sun seemed to have backlit the falls and surrounding rocks quite nicely. However, we also saw a rare turtle besides one of these pools (good timing, indeed).
We took a 300m walk to get to a viewing platform near the base of the falls. But we also noticed there was also a longer 1.8km walk to the top of the falls that leaves from the opposite end of the large picnic area where we left our rental car. Call us lazy, but we didn't do the longer track so we can't really say anything more about that nor the top-down perspective I'm sure we would've gotten.
Although the pools looked inviting, there were signs urging us to keep out due to slippery rocks and perhaps more importantly to prevent impact to some of the endangered animals that use these pools (namely a pair of endangered frogs and that turtle we saw among others). We didn't do it out of respect for the fragility of Nature, but there were some spots where it seemed the falls seemed quite accessible. So we can only hope that other visitors show similar respect (lest them species disappear altogether from here).
Directions: From Cardwell, we took the Bruce Hwy north for about 21km. We then turned left (there's a signpost indicating this) onto Bilyana Rd. We then followed this road for about 19km to its end (it changes names a couple of times as Middle Murray Rd then Murray Falls Rd).
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