Litchfield National Park


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Published: August 5th 2008
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We continued our adventures to Litchfield national park. Here one of the main places we visited was Walkers Creek which was a lovely quiet bushwalk of 3.5km. Again with it being so hot, it was nice and refreshing to cool down with a dip in the springwater river. It was really relaxing with no one else around. After this we stopped at Wangi Falls which is a beautiful spot for swimming and walking and had lots of bats in the surrounding trees.
We also visited Tolmer Falls, Florence Falls and Buley Rockhole which were also lovely spots but were too busy at that time with tourists.
We stopped in Berry Springs on our last night as we made our way back to Darwin. Here we went for a swim in one of the pools in the nature park. Several people were already swimming so it was safe to get in among all the trout and archer fish. The archer fish were funny - a couple sitting at the edge of the pool would hold out a small piece of bread and these fish would aim and shoot water at the piece of bread knocking it into the water for them and
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Millions of termits make these houses for themselves from salvia and faeces, nice!!
would get their aim spot on each time!


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Screwdriver tree

Walker's creek
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Walker's creek

Uphill and it was really hot!!
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Little waterfall

Walker's creek
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Butterfly

Butterfly farm
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Tolmer Falls

The falls are there somewhere
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Florence Falls

too busy to get in for a swim


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