Florence Falls, Litchfield National Park

This was the most spectacular of all the falls in the park. Can you imagine what it would look like in the wet season? The falls in Litchfield are still flowing well during the dry (unlike those in Kakadu nearby) because the sandstone plateau soaks up the wet season rains in underground cracks, like a giant sponge. The water seeps out during the dry.

Magnetic Mounds and Fabulous Falls

September 10th 2014
Today we got started a little earlier to try and see things before the heat of the day got too bad but when I began fixing stuff for a picnic I found all the bread had gone off again. It doesn’t last long in this humid heat! We went into Batchelor and got the bread and a few other groceries and then noticed a Post Office tucked away in a room at the back of the store. I needed more stamps for po ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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