We camped up in Litchfield National Park at Wangi Falls. We are staying here for 3 nights. We quickly set up camp and then went down to Wangi Falls for a swim as it was so hot and we had no power for air con! It was about 35 degrees and not much breeze, a very hot day. The falls were beautiful and open for swimming so we spent the afternoon keeping cool in the water!
The major difference between Kakadu and Litchfield is that Litchfield is much smaller and more accessible. We planned a day out and were going to see most of the popular attractions, unlike Kakadu which took a whole week!
Our first stop was at Tolmer Falls, this was a short walk to a lookout which was amazing. You couldn't swim here as they are trying to protect the establishment of the ghost bat and orange face bat in the cave system. We then made our way down a 4x4 track to the Lost City. This was a mass of rock formations formed together which looked like a little city, quite spectacular! Our next stop was at the Termite Mounds, it looked rather like a cemetery as they all looked like headstones! These mounds are everywhere through the Northern Territory and some are quite huge.
Next was a swim and lunch stop at Florence Falls. To get to the falls was a short walk with lots of steps and you arrived to see a big waterhole with two falls flowing. It was a very refreshing swim as once again it was a very hot day! Ashton and l swam over to the falls which had quite a strong current to get through. Once we were under the falls you could feel the water falling was actually hot! The heat of the rocks nicely heated the water.
Our last stop of the day was to Buley Rock Hole. This was a series of little plunge pools with small cascading waterfalls. It was like being in a small pool with the most amazing scenery! In one full day we had pretty much seen all the popular spots in Litchfield!
We stayed on another day to catch up on some school work which had fallen behind with all our site seeing! After lunch we thought we would head back to Wangi Falls for a swim. We got there only to find the swimming had been closed, as a Russian man had been provoking a freshwater croc and it had bitten him on the leg! The rangers set up gates and all the croc procedures came into play. The rangers from Darwin would come in that night and spotlight the croc to find it and move it along!
From what we have learnt about crocs, freshwater crocs are not dangerous to human unless provoked! They prefer to eat small fish, frogs, insects etc as there mouths are not big enough to eat a human unlike the saltwater crocs! This story of course made the Northern Territory News!
Off tomorrow to Edith falls!
Wangi Falls
Second visit to Wangi Falls, swimming closed due to croc biting Russian Tourist!
Sad Boys!
Tolmer Falls
Termite Mounds
Big Termite Mound!
The Lost City
Florence Falls
Buley Rockpools
Buley Rockpools
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