Murray Falls

You could simply go from Forest Beach straight back to the Bruce Highway but we chose to stay closer to the coast and travel through Halifax and Lucinda. We had heard many tales about Lucinda from our good friends Bob & Yvonne, it is one of their favourite fishing haunts. We could certainly see why, a pretty beach, crystal clear water but dominated by it’s famous 1.5 Km long sugar loading jetty – quite a sight. There was even a comment by a regular visitor saying that you almost had to wait for someone to die to get a place in the caravan park during the winter tourist season. After a brief stop and a walk along the beach we crossed the Herbert River and re-joined the highway heading north, however we had not been travelling long before we were held up for quite some time by road works as they are doing a huge amount of work on the range approaching Cardwell. We don’t know how the businesses in Cardwell are surviving at this time because the entire main street (Bruce Hwy.) is torn up and being re-built with temporary traffic lights alternating the flow of vehicles north and south, with very difficult or no access to the shops. Motoring on we took our lunch stop at Bilyana just north of Kennedy.

Lucinda Beach & 1.5 Km Jetty

It did not take that long to travel from Bilyana to Murray Falls for our next overnight stop, in fact we stayed two nights. Murray Falls has an absolutely fabulous large National Park camping area with clean flush toilets and easy access to large swimming holes in the river and a great viewing platform very close to the base of the falls. Early the next morning was the right time to take the steep and challenging walk through the rainforest to the top of the falls – fantastic. You have to be a little bit careful around these parts, as there are so many things that can bite you, even the trees. In this part of the rainforest there are some giant stinging trees and we believe that just brushing against the leaves can inflict severe and enduring pain. Our two nights at Murray Falls were absolute bliss; peace, quiet, wildlife, refreshing swims and the lullaby of the waterfalls making sure you had a long and pleasant sleep.

Murray Falls Campground