If you've been following my blog then you've seen my initial post on Hanging Rock. My friend Lesa makes teddy bears & was attending a bear fair at Woodend, which is less than 10km from Hanging Rock. A brilliant opportunity to kill two birds with one stone - catch up with Lesa & share Hanging Rock, a truly magnificent piece of nature, with Glenn.
Also in the Daylesford & Macedon Ranges area is Trentham Falls, which is the highest single-drop waterfall in central Victoria.
The face of the waterfall was formed approximately five million years ago by molten lava flowing along the valley of the Coliban River valley. Trentham Falls plunges 32m over basalt columns onto the quartz gravel below. Contraction of the lava as it cooled & solidified resulted in vertical cracking & the appearance of distinct columns.
The spray from the falling water is constantly altering the face, undercutting the lower soft river sediments. In the near future, the left side of the waterfall, which you can see has very little rock supporting it, is expected to collapse as a result of the undercutting.
Further along, water bubbles merrily over rocks on its way downstream.
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