The Crater
The Mount Hypipamee Crater, also known as The Crater is a huge diatreme located south-east of Herberton on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is 61 metres in diameter and 82 metres deep.
It was first discovered by accident when in 1879 Weate and party nearly fell into it. They were heading towards the Mulgrave River on a 5-month gold prospecting expedition. The national park was established in 1908 under the sponsorship of Mr Ringrose of Herberton. There was a debate at the “crater trust” meetings during the 1930s as to what to call “the crater”, the "Herberton Crater" was one suggestion but it was decided to call it the traditional Dyrbal name, Mount Hypipamee. A request was written to the Reverend Gribble of Palm Island to find the origin of the name. The name Hypipamee is a corruption of the Aboriginal word, nabbanabbamee, which is connected with a legend of two young men who cut down a sacred candlenut tree, only to be swallowed up by a large hole in the earth the crater.
The water surface is covered with duck weed. Visitors often throw rocks down into the water to hear the loud bang when the rock hits the surface of the water and the noise echos up the sides. Dinner Falls at the head of the upper Barron River gorge is also part of this park
It was first discovered by accident when in 1879 Weate and party nearly fell into it. They were heading towards the Mulgrave River on a 5-month gold prospecting expedition. The national park was established in 1908 under the sponsorship of Mr Ringrose of Herberton. There was a debate at the “crater trust” meetings during the 1930s as to what to call “the crater”, the "Herberton Crater" was one suggestion but it was decided to call it the traditional Dyrbal name, Mount Hypipamee. A request was written to the Reverend Gribble of Palm Island to find the origin of the name. The name Hypipamee is a corruption of the Aboriginal word, nabbanabbamee, which is connected with a legend of two young men who cut down a sacred candlenut tree, only to be swallowed up by a large hole in the earth the crater.
The water surface is covered with duck weed. Visitors often throw rocks down into the water to hear the loud bang when the rock hits the surface of the water and the noise echos up the sides. Dinner Falls at the head of the upper Barron River gorge is also part of this park
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We walked out to the crater which is an easy walk for about 900mt and is an deep hole as you look over the side as you will see in the video below and then we took the lower track which took us down to the dinner falls which is made up of a few falls which would be inviting on a hot day.
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When you see this video you really don't see how far down this hole goes it drops away more than a hundred feet to the water and the deck is over the hole ...
Dinner Falls
The falls are great and there are a good number of them as you wander down the creek, this place during the summer period must be so busy with people looking for somewhere to cool off, there some many beautiful falls around here and we be visiting some more over the next few weeks.
Just to walk aroud in the forest is great the bird life are all about you singing their songs and yet you cant see any they are so well hidden in the bush, if you can get the chance to visit here it is well worth the time and do allow plenty of time you will need it.......
Just to walk aroud in the forest is great the bird life are all about you singing their songs and yet you cant see any they are so well hidden in the bush, if you can get the chance to visit here it is well worth the time and do allow plenty of time you will need it.......
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It is a easy walk around the falls here and I bet during summer the place is packed we were the only people here today and it gives you a feeling of peace and you just want to sit and take in the peace and quiet except for the roar of the water flowing down the creeks
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Millaa Milla Falls and Town
We stopped of at this town as it so well known for its falls and dairy industry as well as the timber that was pulled out of the rain forest. We checked out the listing on what was for sale and it seems near the whole town is for sale including the main shop which has everything for sale in there.
We had a nice iced Chocolate and home made sausage roll which was rather special. we had a wander about town and visited the Museum which is free to enter and has a lot of history about the area, I have a small video which is below of some of the items there plus a couple of photos.
We had a nice iced Chocolate and home made sausage roll which was rather special. we had a wander about town and visited the Museum which is free to enter and has a lot of history about the area, I have a small video which is below of some of the items there plus a couple of photos.
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We had look about here video and photos below
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this is town and it not big but as all older towns wide streets and it has a pub but very modern
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I have no idea but leave to you to work out this, but its in the main street
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Somebody has a good bit of fun here
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And here to a very large tooth pick
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The main shop In town it has everything
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These are kept so people see how large the timber trees they fell in those days
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To see size you may just see Ellen standing to right of stump and she is over five foot high and it well above her
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This is a video of inside the Museum I took as I walked about so you can see the history from around this area
Millaa Millaa Falls |
We parked up on the upper level car park and could hear the roar of the falls from here and walked down the 30 or so steps to where the falls were which opened up into a beautiful site with the falls as the centre point and even where we stood we were hit by the cold spray from the water and I could feel for the backpackers who were swimming and they were a bright pink from the cold.
The ground was very wet from the rain in past days and the grass was very muddy and you had to stay on the pathways, it really takes your breath away, the vista is stunning with the roar of the falls hope the picture paint a view for you.
The ground was very wet from the rain in past days and the grass was very muddy and you had to stay on the pathways, it really takes your breath away, the vista is stunning with the roar of the falls hope the picture paint a view for you.
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Millaa Millaa Falls from the roadway
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Millaa Millaa Falls close up from edge of pond.
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