Qualla: Minyon Falls https://qualla.com/minyon-falls en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/v/j/minyon-falls-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Minyon Falls https://qualla.com/minyon-falls Minyon Falls: Introduction https://qualla.com/minyon-falls/ Photo credit Vaschoepfer, CC BY-SA 4.0. The water arrives at the edge almost casually. Repentance Creek winds through wet forest, unremarkable, and then the ground simply stops, and the stream leaps into a hundred metres of open air. It falls past a sheer wall of rhyolite - rock that cooled from lava some 23 million years ago, in the heart of the volcano that once towered over this whole corner of New South Wales. Below, the rainforest swallows the spray. Minyon Falls is the moment a quiet creek discovers the bones of a dead volcano, and the drop has been measured at anywhere from 97 to 104 metres depending on who is holding the tape.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/v/j/minyon-falls-wp/r6vj-minyon-falls-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Minyon Falls: The Volcano's Edge https://qualla.com/minyon-falls/ Photo credit Brian W. Schaller, FAL. These cliffs are a relic of the Tweed shield volcano, a vast dome of lava that erupted around 23 million years ago and has since been carved by erosion into a ring of escarpments. At its centre, far to the north, the jagged spire of Mount Warning - Wollumbin to the Bundjalung - i...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/v/j/minyon-falls-wp/r6vj-minyon-falls-the-volcanos-edge.mp3 0:06 2 full Minyon Falls: A Rainforest That Was Saved https://qualla.com/minyon-falls/ Photo credit Bjentle, CC BY-SA 4.0. Minyon Falls lies within Nightcap National Park, part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, inscribed on the World Heritage list in 1986. That protection was hard-won. In 1979, just to the west at Terania Creek, a group of locals stood in front of Forestry Commission bulldoze...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/v/j/minyon-falls-wp/r6vj-minyon-falls-a-rainforest-that-was-saved.mp3 0:06 3 full Minyon Falls: Who Lives in the Valley https://qualla.com/minyon-falls/ Photo credit Tentotwo, CC BY-SA 3.0. There are really two forests here. The clifftop is wet sclerophyll - tall, straight blackbutt, tallowwood, and flooded gum reaching for the light - while below, where the spray keeps the air damp, it gives way to true subtropical rainforest: a tangle of bangalow palms, strangler ...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/6/v/j/minyon-falls-wp/r6vj-minyon-falls-who-lives-in-the-valley.mp3 0:06 4 full Minyon Falls: Walking to the Bottom https://qualla.com/minyon-falls/ Photo credit Aliceinthealice, CC0. A fifty-metre boardwalk leads to the main lookout, wheelchair accessible, where most visitors take in the falls from above, with picnic tables and barbecues set among the trees at the clifftop. But the valley rewards the determined. A 4.5-kilometre track drops from the rim, cross...

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