This is the kind of waterfall where you could bring out your tripod, put your DSLR in shutter priority mode, and let Nature do the rest as the waters of Floods Creek ripples over the stair-stepping bedrock.

Not knowing how the precipitation patterns are prior to the Autumn season, it seemed like Somersby Falls had pretty satisfactory flow on our May 2008 visit. I'm not sure it's a year-round waterfall, but I did read in the literature that this is best seen after heavy rain, which implies that it has a short season, and we just got lucky. In any case, it did feel cool and moist on the morning we visited despite the weather being sunny, which suggests to me that perhaps this drainage and forest sees its share of moisture.

The first falls is down some steps near the car park and is quite pretty as it tumbles in several steps towards the smooth bedrock below. The shorter lower falls is a short distance further downstream reachable by more descending steps. Soon the steps end, and in order to get good photos of the lower falls, we had to do a little bit of scrambling and crossing the stream. Do watch your step as you go down to the lower falls as the mossy path can get a little slippery in spots.

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