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St Columba Falls

St Columba Falls as seen from its base


St Columba Falls is an impressive wishbone-shaped waterfall tumbling some 90m making it one of Tasmania's tallest waterfalls. It is fed by a very large drainage (some 4000 hectares) in an area that usually gets high rainfall. Thus, the falls have never been known to run dry since its discovery (at least according to a sign we saw there).

The road to the falls is actually completely sealed (at least if you're coming from St Helens). There is some limited parking and a picnic area across the canyon from the falls. You can get distant views from here, but you'll have to do the short walk downhill to a bridge right at the base of the falls for a closer look. Under heavier flows that what we had seen, it can get quite misty down there. There are also a few interpretive signs to keep you busy along the way.

Not far from here along an unsealed road is Ralphs Falls.

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St Columba Falls from the car parkThe falls from the car park



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