Blogs from Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania - page 6

Packed up the Kakadu campsite and left the National Park with a heavy heart. One more swim in the Cooinda pool cooled us down before the long drive ahead. The road out of Kakadu is a long one since the park covers more than 20000 square kilometres. We drove through beautiful flood plains, over the alligator river in many spots, through groves of different trees and termite mounds and grey rocks. We drove nearly into Darwin and then back out again and down to Litchfield National Park. We have heard such good things about this place and cant wait to get there. We drive into the park and around to Wangi Falls, a superb spot, only to be told that we cant really stay there as ‘they’ will be demolishing the facilities soon. So we dip ... read more

We arrived at Litchfield NP and decided to stay at the Park campsite at Wangi Falls instead of the Caravan Park. We spent the entire afternoon swimming in the pool at the base of the falls. The next morning we explored, Tolmer and Florence falls before making our way to Katherine. We got up very early the next day to board a breakfast cruise along Katherine(Nitmiluk) Gorge, it was a beautiful morning and the sunrise over the gorge made for some jawdropping scenery. We had a huge buffet brekkie as we cruised the first 2 of the 13 gorges. We then packed up the Watergate and made our way West. We stayed overnight at Big Horse Creek on the bank of the Victoria river about 10km west from Timber Creek, we tried once again to catch ... read more

Monday July 21st We went downtown today to try and lodge our tax returns first off. This was unsuccessful because it was just over our heads and we didn’t want to mess something out and lose out on money. Mike went for a haircut so Katja and I walked around the town. Once Mike was done we met up we went to the local Travellers Auto Barn to top up on power steering fluid, talk about an oil change and towing fee. Next was Charles Darwin University for photos. Anything I could find that had Charles Darwin’s name in it I tried to take photos of in town! We stopped by the ocean after this for lunch for our final ocean swim of the trip and also to say we had swam in the Indian Ocean. ... read more

In Litchfield National Park, on our way to a campsite, we stopped and saw Magnetic Termite Mounds. The termites build them very skinny and pointy at the top, like a mohair hairdo. They face East for the morning sun to warm the inside, and face West to keep the mound warm overnight. We got to Buley Rockhole and set up camp. The water was very cold and very deep and places. We found a rock with a log and swam over to it and got on it. Then we swam to the waterfall and sat on the rocks where the water couldn’t push you away as much as floating in the water beneath the waterfall. When we were leaving we saw a snake go across the path. We saw a girl touch it and when it ... read more

day 6 ended up beautifully. We were in a beautiful spot over looking the yarra and downtown melbourne and the mcg/arena/lexas centre. We had a large group of people, and were surrounded by other park go-ers. The weather was a delight. Sunny, moderate temperature. cold beer, huge barbie of chicken, snags and burgers. the best salad i've ever tasted. We spent about 7 hrs on that river bank. We ended up walking back through federation square. There was a huge thai festival going on. The aroma's were painfully heavenly. We settle down on to the lower wharf docs. none of this was developed 3 years ago, and now just looked simply stunning. We all grabbed a beer and nestled into one of the veranda's overlooking the river and st kilda bridge. The air was festive. The ... read more