Social media posts skew expectations and encourage people to travel miles to capture popular locations. If blind followers hop on the trend with no reservations, they might find themselves bathing in sewage water.
Woy Woy Waterfall Pool, located within the Brisbane Water National Park, north of Sydney, Australia, can literally give people shit to post about for their intended audience. Several people have shared videos and photos of the waterfall with captions that read the “beautiful” pool — nicknamed the “bathtub.”
“I lived in Woy Woy Bay as a child — had no idea — gorgeous!” one person responded to a viral video online.
Aussie bandwagoners were searching for the “hidden” waterfall pool in NSW that went viral on social media. The locals spoke some sense into the vain searchers as they warned them about the unsanitary mess behind the picture-perfect falls. “The water comes from a rubbish disposal nearby, definitely be careful putting head underwater,” a user commented.
“It’s a nice spot but don’t swim in it after rains as linked to runoff and has lots of fecal coliforms,” another person added.
A waste management facility shares waterways with Woy Woy Falls which explains the diluted water that is definitely not safe for a swim. “Please be careful everyone this is quite a dangerous place. Already had one visitor recently plummet and had to be airlifted to hospital,” a person wrote.
An Instagram user posted an image of the deceiving waterfall with the caption: “I’m so grateful for being able to connect to nature more often. I felt so much more alive today surrounded by trees, pure oxygen, and far from the chaos of the city. One of my biggest resolution for this year is definitely create more space for these activities which make me so alive. Hope you enjoyed your weekend too.”
If the sewage water makes people feel alive, it is a struggle to imagine their bleak reality.