This past weekend we endured the long 1.5 hour drive to Litchfield park. This is a popular day trip for many Darwinians as well as other Australians.
They have camping there but the main draw is the waterfalls with the pools at the bottom. Now 1.5 hour drive only gets you to the gate of the park. In order to get to any of the water falls you have to drive another 45 minutes to get to the first falls. So it's a lot of driving. Well we went to the first falls (picture with the guy jumping) but it was small, crowded and cold. So we ate lunch there and promised we'd go in the next falls (honest). Well it was 130 steps back up and carting the lunch and stuff back up the stairs was pretty straining. Well L carted it down while I took pictures. Guess she's smarter than me to volunteer to go first.
The 2nd water fall another 30 minutes (at least from the first) was very nice as you can see from the pictures. The water was cool but was nice once you got in which we did quickly as there was many people watching. We wandered around the lake and we got to see some bats in the trees hanging upside down. Of course if we wanted bats we'd just go outside our house cause we have lots. Really the only interesting wildlife was the odd Cockatiel (parrot like bird), bats and some wild cows. Well they were on the road to start then they wandered in to the bush to eat it.
Needless to say it was a long ride for a swim it may have been better to go to the local pool. The local scenery is lots of sparsely leaved trees and red dirt. That goes on for pretty much miles. But it's nice to get away but this country is gonna be a lot of driving.
We have been looking at Diving in the great barrier reef maybe a 3 day/2 night on board a boat but we'll see.
Oh and L's plant that was eaten by the possums we put it in it's proper pot today. It had some leaves just starting to grow. When we put the plant 1 leaf was 4 inches below the top of the water now it's 1/2 inch. It has grown or stretched or something quite a lot in one day. Maybe it likes fresh water.
Here are the pictures here or click on the slideshow below for a bigger view.
