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Barron Falls is situated within the Barron Gorge National Park west of Cairns and approximately 6 km east of Kuranda. Barron Falls is a Wet Tropics World Heritage site and occurs in the north east tableland section of Australia’s Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area (WTWHA), which extends from Cooktown southwards to Paluma, encompassing an area of 894,420 hectares. Indigenous culture has a long history in the Barron Gorge region. The Djabugay, Bulway, and Nyagali are representative of the rainforest people in the Barron Gorge area (DNRM, 2001). For these tribal groups, Barron Falls is a well-known story place and sacred site (Bottoms, 1992). It is a widely held Dreamtime story that the carpet snake (Budadji), which was ambushed, killed and chopped into pieces , and thrown into the bush by greedy birdmen, is the creator of all rivers and creeks of the Barron Gorge (Bottoms, 1999). In the early 1890s, gold was discovered up at Tinaroo creek, and as a consequence, Barron Gorge received the attention of hopeful prospectors (EPA, 1998, cited in DNRM, 2001). As a result of this, the population swelled and placed pressure on a number of indigenous communities due to limited access to water and strip mining (Bain & Draper, 1997; cited in DNRM, 2001). Source: rainforest-crc.jcu.edu.au/publications/site_report_barron...

Anne Tracy Morgan (1873-1952), daughter of John Pierpont Morgan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Morgan_%28philanthropist%29 She was active in France during WWI, sponsor of the American Friends of France, a relief organization.

wow! I wonder who the photographer was?

yes i worked here in another time but that is all behind me now. It was a place of school of hard knocks.

The Solider front left with both hands on the litter handle made it through the Viet Nam 2 tours is still alive today . Sargent Major John Hakes .
He is a good friend of mine .
THis photo also appears in the Encyclopedia of Viet Nam.
Duncan Adams
9-24-2012

Awesome historical detail, Duncan126...thanks! I don't suppose Mr. Hakes recalls who made this image??

The soldier on the stretcher is my brother Bob Lee, Jr. He was a LT.. Bob lives in Tampa FL with his wife and is retired. and does not talk about this experience. The guy in the front right was LTC Schroder, CO of the 2nd Bn., 39th Inf. LTC Schroder was later KIA. They named a FSB after him in the Plain of Reeds. Special thanx to Cliff Schultz.