in an earlier instalment of my secret spots, i walked you through the delights of tasmania's montezuma falls. trentham's is a broader, more muscular falls than montezuma and is considered, at 32 metres, to be victoria's largest single-drop cascade ? even though the delicate, multiple-drop dandangadong falls near mt cobbler in northeast victoria are much higher in overall altitude. situated just over 90 kms northwest of melbourne, trentham falls has far less vertical height than montezuma's 100 metres ? but trentham's is a direct and dramatic plunge, rather than a gradual unfolding over three tiers, so it's difficult to try and rate the one over the other.the town of trentham lies within a comfortable cluster of pleasant rural centres ? bacchus marsh to the south, further northwest to daylesford and hepburn springs, lofty macedon to the east ? and was itself settled after that all-important first hint of gold was detected, much like historic clunes, walhalla and many others throughout australia as she was finding her feet.
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