by Jock Phillips
‘The escaping stream hurls headlong down past the grey crags … to be received … amid the spray-glittering forest, into a magic pool’. So wrote Victorian essayist Blanche Baughan on seeing the 580-metre Sutherland Falls, in Fiordland. The grandeur of cascading water continues to astonish the thousands who visit New Zealand’s many waterfalls.
Main image: Te Rēinga Falls
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