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Phantom Falls is a pleasant 15m waterfall in the Angahook-Lorne State Park just a few minutes behind the coastal town of Lorne.
This was the last of the waterfalls that we saw near the Great Ocean Road during our drought-stricken November 2006 trip. However, like the other waterfalls in the Great Otways region, this one flowed quite well.
From the car park (there are a few ways you can approach the waterfall - see directions below), we hiked about 90 minutes round trip. There was a brief section on private land that the owners graciously let people use (please respect their property as signposts clearly mark the way through to the actual track).
Once we got past the private property, we went up a very steep gravel road and eventually down a brief descent towards an upper viewing deck of the falls. Additional steps and rails assisted us in making the descent to the waterfall's base.
Directions: The way we took to the falls was from the Allenvale Road (on the way to the Sheoak Picnic Area), where there was a wide clearing with a lot of gated off roads near a bridge as well as a sign pointing the way to the falls. It was roughly 4km from the William St/Otway Rd intersection in Lorne.
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