Princess Falls - more details needed

[walkinTas]

Name: Princess Falls
Tasmap: 3633 Strahan
Latitude: -42.1067242
Longitude: 145.5169335
Stream: Princess River

On the map there are two other sets of falls shown in the Princess River as listed below. Does anyone know if these are named falls? Has anyone visited these falls?

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[jose]

I have never taken part in any forum before but as no one has answered the question about the Princess River Falls I feel prompted to respond. I have been to the lower falls about 4 years ago. It was a scrubby and leeech infested area on the rainy day I went in. We went in from Mt Jukes Road (GR 377713 5334735), walked about 25 mins on the ABT railway towards Lynchford Station. At GR 378038 5335876 we left the railway line, found and followed a track in to Princess Creek. It took us 30 - 40 minutes to get to the lower falls at GR 377603 5336822. We didn't follow the river up to the next falls and I don't think the two lower ones are named. I would be interested to know what route others go to find THE Princess Falls.

Does everyone use Lat/Long on this forum? I was looking through the Tasmanian Waterfalls list and found it really confusing to locate tha falls using the degrees and minutes in Oziexplorer. I seemed consistently to be a good hundred metres from the expected site. BTW my grid references are from map using Geodetic 66.

[GerryDuke]

Thanks Jose for the information. I have always wanted to go the these falls. I found detais of the walk in a book titled "Walk The West - Day Walks on Tasmania's West Coast". However the book does not give very clear details of where the track starts!!

[walkinTas]

Hi Jose, Thanks for the reply, and thanks for the info about the walk.

Does everyone use Lat/Long on this forum? I was looking through the Tasmanian Waterfalls list and found it really confusing to locate the falls using the degrees and minutes in Oziexplorer. I seemed consistently to be a good hundred metres from the expected site. BTW my grid references are from map using Geodetic 66.

The consistent difference you are seeing is because you are using Geodetic 66 and the Waterfalls list is given in GDA94 (read more). For a simple conversion from AGD66 you can add 112m to the easting and 183m to the northing to get GDA94 (read more). You can download a simple tool to convert between AGD66, AGD84 and GDA94 - remember to set the zone to 55.

I chose to use decimal Lat/Long in the lists because it gives two numbers that can easily be cut and pasted into Google Earth (no special characters or formatting required). With OziExplorer, it may help if you right click on the grid information and change the details.

[jose]

Thanks Jose for the information. I have always wanted to go the these falls. I found detais of the walk in a book titled "Walk The West - Day Walks on Tasmania's West Coast". However the book does not give very clear details of where the track starts!!

That was interesting Gerry. According to the map and GPS I didn't get to the Princess Falls. But I borrowed that book 'Walk the West' from the library to check their directions. Their sketch of the Princess Falls in the book is the same as the photo that I posted above - it even has the same log in the foreground. I'm sure it can't be right because I took the photo from the lower unnamed falls!

[jose]

Thanks for that explanation about why you use Latitude and longitude WalkinTas. I have only worked with grid references up till now and I knew these had changed with the new GDA94 maps but didn't realise that Lat/Long changed as well. Obviously I am quite ignorant about minutes and degrees!

I have always checked waypoints by 'exporting to Google Earth' via OziExplorer under 'save' but I understand why Lat/Long is more convenient for cut and pasting.

Have you been to the Princess Falls and if you have, did you follow the spillway from the dam down or did you go up from the Old Lynchford Bridge?

[walkinTas]

I haven't been to Princess Falls, and before reading the info here I was only planning a trip in via the spillway. I might try both walks now.

Thanks for that explanation about why you use Latitude and longitude WalkinTas.

Cheers. Your original question is still a good question for others to answer. I too would like to know who prefers to use Easting/Northing and who uses Lat/Long?

[flyfisher]

I prefer the grid references because they relate more easily to the markings on the edge of the maps.

FF