A visitor’s local information sign at the Moss garden waterfall where rainwater is soaked up like a sponge on the moss covered sandstones and meets an
A visitor’s local information sign at the Moss garden waterfall where rainwater is soaked up like a sponge on the moss covered sandstones and meets an impenetrable layer of rock known as Shale. The dripping water is a constant supply of moisture and therefore sustains a green oasis of mosses, ferns and liverworts in the Moss Garden in the Carnarvon Gorge National Park in the Central Highlands of Queensland in Australia. Carnarvon Gorge's landscape have largely been shaped by water erosion and is renown for its towering white sandstone cliffs, high above the winding Carnarvon Creek, cutting its way through rainforest for approximately 30 kilometres into the outback. Scottish explorer, Thomas Mitchell visited the Gorge in the 1840s, and named it after a Welsh coastal town, Caernarfon in the United Kingdom
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Location: Carnvarvon Gorge,Queensland,Australia
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