Our Camp site near Litchfield National Park was again in a dust bowl, but had a lot of shade from the palm trees. With the heat at 33 deg most days we are starting to need shade. However, our friends we have met from Melbourne (Karen & Mark) managed a beautiful green oasis over the other side of the park with a beautiful garden and plenty of shade. I am starting to feel like I am living in dirt & look forward to a nice grass site soon.
These large magnetic terminte mounds are dotted all over the country side & can withstand floods, sun & all sorts of weather.
I am overlooking the lovely Florence Falls. If you are keen to walk down 450 steps and back up again you can cool off in the rockpool below. As we were already exhausted we decided to swim at Buley Rockpool (which is only a 200 m walk)
It is school holidays in NT for 4 weeks so the rockpool was packed with families on holidays. Great picnic area and lots of small cascades..
The photo's above & below are of the beautiful Wangi Falls. Generally this is a swimming aea but is still closed because of the crocodiles!
Who would have thought I would run into 3 girls I used to work with in Speech Pathology at Wangi Falls......Sam, Sue Mac. me & Stephanie.
Greenant Walk was shaded with palms so the walk up to the rock pool was quite easy. We were able to swim here & sit at the top of the waterfall. Just behind where I am standing is a waterfall with a 40m drop!!!
After finding out all the local knowledge from the "experts" in the park we headed off to Mandorah Pier with Mark & Karen to try our luck at fishing! After a very long afternoon being entertained by the locals going backwards & forwards on the ferry to get their supplies from Darwin, this is all they had to show!!! We didn't get to see the "huge one" that got away, but it did nearly take Tonys line, bait & rod as we were packing up!!!
Karen & I were pleased to finally get to the Pub at Mandorah and have a cool wine!!! Great Barra burgers here for dinner overlooking the ocean, watching the sunset & the lights of Darwin.
Berry Springs warm thermal pools were a great way to spend the afternoon. It was Territory Day today so there were a lot of picnicners in the park & pool & hundreds of noodles!! Tiny shrimp nibble on your toes if you stand still for too long & lucky I didn't see the large fish swimming in there until I got out! No fishing here tho!
The local school in Berry Springs put on a fantastic fireworks display. On Territory Day you can buy as many firecrackers as you like & the locals set them off before the professional display. The safety standards here are quite different to SA, we had to duck a few times!! It was quite spectacular to see sitting in 28 deg sipping on a wine!
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