Blogs from Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania - page 4

Travelling from Lake Argyle to Keep River National Park was a short journey, however it took nearly 3 hours. No this wasn't the result of bad roads or heavy traffic, we crossed the state boundary into the Northern Territory and consequently lost an hour and a half. So with the day nearly gone there was just enough time for a walk into the Gurrundalng. This is the Aboriginal name for Keep River N P, and suits it much better I think. It's also the name of a beautiful blue/grey stork-like bird, many of which we saw in the park. Scrambling through rocky gullies and over wooded banks of woolly-butt trees we felt completely alone amongst this beautiful wilderness. The undulating cliff faces and sporadically placed palms seemed to stretch forever with no hint of human habitation. ... read more

On Friday I got up early to join a tour to Lichfield National Park, which is a couple of hours drive out of Darwin. Our first stop was at the Adelaide River where we had breakfast and coffee, held a couple of snakes, and then went on a boat cruise up the river to spot crocodiles. This tour was a little different than ones I've done in the past, as these crocodiles are used to performing to get food. They swim straight towards the boat when they hear you coming, and the staff hold some meat from a stick and the crocs jump out of the water twice on each side before getting the meat. They are totally wild crocs but are quite used to the drill, and perform very well for maximum photo opportunities. There ... read more

Today we headed to Litchfield National Park for an overnight stay. As we had not booked any accommodation we had to first find somewhere to stay. Our first choice was booked out so we moved down the road to our second choice, it too was booked out. The last place had budget accommodation available for $70 a night. This bought you a 4x4 metre room with 2 bunk beds, a fridge and a vinyl floor. We did have a clunky air conditioner, so that was alright. After the owner came and gave it a thump it was quiet enough to be able to get to sleep. The lady who showed us the room said “the cobwebs are free”. The place had a real outback feel. Once our accommodation was sorted out, we headed to Florence Falls ... read more

31st October - 2nd November 2009 Litchfield National Park Litchfield is awesome! I have done nothing but swim in waterholes, do some seriously fun off road driving, get up close and personal with some rather large termite mounds, star gaze and permanently part my hair in the waterfalls! It has been just great! For starters, Litchfield is small, really small. You could be in and out in one day. But that would be boring! There are 3 main watering holes to have a swim in: Florence Falls, Buleys Rockhole and Wangi Falls. All are great, all have their own character. Wangi Falls is where I stayed the night. It's the biggest swimming hole and the falls were still flowing alittle. It is shallow in most parts but then you swim over the deeper sections and well, ... read more

Day 146 - Darwin to Wangi Falls (Litchfield National Park) It’s moving day today, yippee! Nothing can stop us now, well actually that’s not quite true as the brakes are all fixed so they will stop us!! But you know what we mean! We’re packed up in no time at all, we wave goodbye to the neighbours and hand the boom gate key in at reception to obtain our $20 deposit! It was there I spotted the headlines in todays paper “UFO sighting at popular NT tourist spot”. It seems that Wycliffe Well has done it again!! Unfortunately when we stayed the night there we didn’t see any lights in the sky or funny shaped objects floating around over head that we could write about in our blog but it seems that they’ve just had another ... read more