"Govett's Leap" is the name of this waterfall, no more than walking distance from my home in the Blue Mountains. Some people
believe that Govett was the name of an outlaw who (being hotly pursued by the police) lept with his horse from the cliffs at this point.
In reality William Romaine Govett was a Scottish born NSW government surveyor who discovered the waterfall in 1835. "Leap"
is supposed to be an old Scottish word meaning "waterfall". The falls (for a time) were renamed the "Bridal Veil Falls" for
tourism marketing reasons and it is not hard to see why. They are the highest fall of water in the Blue Mountains with an
unbroken plunge of some 180 metres onto broken rocks in the Grose Valley below. The water flows further down in a series of
cascades until it reaches the floor of the valley some 400 metres below the popular "Govett's Leap" lookout.