We went to Gardeners Falls, which is near Maleny (our favourite little hinterland town - lush ice cream and the nicest coffee ever!). We got there quite early and there were only a couple of families there. The river was flowing quite fast, dropping over a few little cascades, the falls getting slightly bigger at each drop. The river flowed into a large pool then pounded off the edge in an amazing waterfall. the boys have never seen a big waterfall before, it wasn't actually that big, but it was loud and impressive. We have been told there were rope swings that you could jump into the pool from. Both the boys were looking forward to doing this. When we saw the swings Tristan and I just looked at each other and shook our heads. The first one was about a 15m drop from the swing into the very deep fast flowing water and the 2nd was a lot lower but you had to clear tree roots and the banks of the river before you dropped into the fast river!
Both boys were still determined to do it. We then watched a couple of teenage boys do the 1st swing, to which Rowans face dropped and he said 'No way hose!', Reuben however said 'it's my go now!'.
Reuben was not very impressed at being told he wasn't allowed to go on them, so his next request was to slide down the actual falls!
We decided to move back further up river to where the cascades were falling and the danger was less!
We spent a good couple of hours splashing around in the little falls, we slid down one small one and the force of the water was immense. Rowan loved playing in the pools and climbing up the falls. Reuben wants to go again, next time with something to slide down the falls on!
Tris decided that he just had to have a go at jumping off the top of the big falls, so we all went to watch him play, the boys were very impressed with their Daddy ;)
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| snack time |
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| Adventurer Rowan crossing the river! |
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| natural jacuzzi |
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| This is not Tris but thats the jump |
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| the falls look tiny in this photo |
Looks amazing!
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