Author(s): Travis Easton

Travel Photography

When I started this project if someone had told me there was a 75 metre high unmapped waterfall within 50km of a city of four million people I wouldn’t have believed them. The fact that this is merely the tip of the iceberg has been a revelation. In 2007 I began a quest to visit every waterfall around Melbourne, imagining it would take me a few months to complete. The eight year journey of discovery I have been on since then has been beyond all expectations. After visiting all the waterfalls on current maps, I started finding other drops in old books, photos and vintage maps. As my familiarity with the terrain around Melbourne increased, I began wandering down likely gullies and started finding waterfalls. This slowly expanded into a systematic examination of the topography of all likely waterways around Melbourne, and to my amazement has resulted in many more waterfall discoveries. This trilogy is the result and documents all the waterfalls I could find both popular and unmapped within a 100km radius of Melbourne. Melbourne’s Waterfalls, Volume Two: Northern Waterfalls documents 151 of these waterfalls (plus another 22 water features of interest), and in total includes the details for 322 tiers.