Website:https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/visit-a-park/parks/blue-mountains-national-park (Website)
Description:Empress Falls We're looking at a stream that's taken millions of years to cut a deep but narrow canyon through the upper layers of Blue Mountains sandstone. Empress Canyon is popular for abseiling. The Valley of the Waters Creek gushes from its gorge and spills over fern-fringed ledges as Empress Falls. The falls drop 30 metres into a deep pool where locals swim. The water is so deep and cold that it's not easy to find the bottom. Before our climb to the top, this is the perfect place to sit and take a spell. Abseilers in wet suits and hard hats are a familiar sight attempting the drop through the rush of the waterfall. But now we simply pause to enjoy the delicate embrace of this place – lost in its spray and mists. We're at the end of a box canyon, and the only way out is up. The climb is breathtaking, in more ways than one. We quickly ascend through a range of familiar environments ... from the shadows of a dark and mysterious rainforest, past rocky outcrops, along ledges and then straight up steel and timber staircases into the bright sunlight.
Jurisdictions::Blue Mountains City Council, NSW National Parks and Wildlife
