Photograph of three adjacent waterfalls cascading down cliffs into a river below. Printed caption at top of photograph.

Splitters Falls are located on the Erskine River in the Grampians National Park and are divided into three portions. The lower portion at a height of 60 feet, the middle at a height of 100 feet and the top at 20 feet. The photograph shows the top of the falls. The photographer John Caire was born in Guernsey but emigrated with his parents to Adelaide in 1860. He opened a photographic studio in Adelaide in 1867.     

This is a photograph from one of the nine albums compiled following Prince Albert Victor (1864-92) and Prince George of Wales' (1865-1936) world tour aboard HMS Bacchante from 1879 to 1882. The photographs were collected by their chaperon and tutor, John Neale Dalton.

The majority of the images in these albums are topographical views and architectural studies, loosely arranged according to the group’s itinerary. They include photographs of artefacts, local people and public figures, as well as portraits of the princes taken during the tour. The attempt to recreate the experience of a journey through such an assortment of images is common to many amateur travelling albums of this period. In 1886, some of the photographs in the albums were reproduced as engravings in the published accounts of the voyage, The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship Bacchante, 1879-1882.