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St Columba Falls is an impressive wishbone-shaped waterfall tumbling some 90m making it one of Tasmania's tallest waterfalls.
It is said to be 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).
We were able to get distant views of the falls from the limited parking and picnic area across the canyon. But there was a walk that goes downhill to a bridge right in front at the base of St Columba Falls for a closer look.
During our visit, the falls seemed to have below average flow (especially compared to some of the photos we had seen in the literature). Even an interpretive sign near the lookout said that it gets quite misty down there, but it wasn't during our visit. So it kind of made me wonder whether that sign saying the falls had never run dry since its discovery will be tested if this drought persists.
Directions: The road to the falls is actually completely sealed (at least if you're coming from St Helens like we did). We drove about 26km along the Tasman Hwy (A3) towards Riverdale. From there, we followed signs onto the St Columba Falls Rd eventually leading us to spur at 9km to the left ultimately reaching the car park at the end of the spur.
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