SPRINGBROOK (Q)
 Natural Arch

Return distance : 1 km; Time : 35 minutes

The entry to Natural Arch in the Springbrook National Park is off the Nerang – Murwillumbah Raod, about 27 km north of Murwillumbah. It is a very popular tourist destination, and with good reason.

The easy, sealed circuit track passes through lush rain forest. If you are lucky you may see a bush turkey.

The area contains dense sub-tropical rain forest, so there is a great variety of luxuriant vegetation to admire. It is often wet!

The path crosses the mountain-fed waters of Cave Creek.

Life becomes interesting when the creek forms a waterfall, which plunges into a gaping hole, disappearing into the mysterious depths of a dark cavern.

Further down, we find the bottom of the fall, the water plunging into a pool below the Natural Arch.

The water then emerges as a sparkling stream ...

... which flows into the Nerang River and down the Numinbah Valley.

Australia has so many wonderful walks!