Blogs from Litchfield, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania

Litchfield is a 1509 sq Km national park situated in the top end of the North Territory. The park historically belongs to the Aboriginal Wagait People. We spent two nights and three days here. On the first day we arrived pretty early and after having our breakfast we went and saw the Magnetic and Cathedral termite mounds. There were mounds everywhere but the biggest stands at two meters high. The termites had built them with great care allowing the least possible surface area to be facing the sun. We then went to Buley Rockhole, a series of small waterfalls and rock holes where we swam and relaxed. While we were here we saw our first wild snake! After a few hours in the holes we moved on to the Florence Falls. Florence Falls is a double ... read more

Litchfield, 1500 square kilometres of National Park. Originally home to the Koongurrukun, Marranuggu, Werat and Warray Aboriginal Communities. Discovered by the Finniss Exploration and named after one of the explorers, Fredrick Henery Litchfield . The waterfalls at Litchfield are the main attraction. Although the Blyth homestead and termite mounds are also locations of interest. Our focus was the falls and over a day and a 1/2 we took in as much as we possibly could. The temperature whilst we were at Litchfield was 34-36degrees Celsius each day, humidity 80% and mozzies bad after sunset. We stayed at the Safari Camp which was run down with cane toads and insects on the basins and wet concrete floors Up early on the first day at 0911hrs we departed camp slowly temperature already a very humid 24degress. Bacon and ... read more

I don’t like to go on about sunrises but they are without question one of nature’s most beautiful sights of course sunset’s fit in to the same category. Our balcony had wide open 180 0 views over the rooftops to the North and East, so a little before 0530 I quietly snuck out to the verandah and was very glad I had as the sunrise was pretty special. We had a good feed for brekky and did not need to leave early as we planned to stop at Mt Isa (yet again) which was a little under 770 km’s down the road, a relatively easy day. Now be honest – raise your hand if you have ever been guilty of exceeding the speed limit while driving. Mine’s up. I have been driving since 1977 and during ... read more