22/11/2008 - Cooee Falls
Burnie on Tassie's NW coast is where I grew up and I am madly passionate about my old home town. At a time when it was being labelled Australia's Dirtiest City due to industry and polution, I confidently knew that one day it would be known for its natural assets and beauty.
The city of Burnie is nestled among a set of scenic hills and valleys surrounding a narrow coastal strip and Emu Bay. In the hinterland are more than a dozen waterfalls, most of which are on private property. One such waterfall is Cooee Falls situated on land owned by the University of Tasmania.
The falls are on Cooee Creek about 100 metres downstream of the Three Mile Line bridge. Incidentally, this road was named after an arbitrary line drawn by the colonial government in the 1830s to divide small, individual, coastal land-holdings from the massive tracts of land held by the Van Diemans Land Company.
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