Exploring Litchfield National Park, Monday 10th Sepember 2007

Litchfield National Park is said to be the little brother of the big brother Kakadu National Park. We have been told not to miss this one. So we drove to the furtherest point of the park to work our way back to the entrance of the park over the next couple of days. We got to Wangi falls, after nearly driving over a snake in the road,it survived! We walked around the top of the falls and down to th swimming area near the carpark. The best thing about this park compared to Kakadu is that you can swim here, as in Kakadu they have salt water croc's (the ones that eat you!). The walk wasn't much to look at other than the dryness of the trees and surrounding bush. It was not as good as yesterdays walk. Though the swimming area was bigger with 2 bigger water falls, one at each end. I swam over to one of them and found a little area to sit in, which was a bit like a jacuzzi from the water falling into it. In the shallows Hannah saw a few fish swimming around her and got out to video me on the other side of the water.We missed out Green ant creek as it was getting hotter and it said it was a 3-5 km walk. We got Florence falls and from the top it was all tropical and Hannah said it looked lovely. we walked down the 137 steps and found a spot for our towels. We swam to a rock in the middle of the swimming area and I swam under the falls while Hannah took a photo. I got a good one of Hannah sat on the rock with the waterfalls behind her. As Hannah said guess what? yes we saw the naked Germans again here! To finish off our day, we only had Buley rock holes left to see, so we were ahead of our schedule. We only needed one day not two.The rock holes are holes made by the river currents and they were about 5-7 foot wide and some were 7 foot deep holes in the rock river bed. We sat the relaxing and sunning ourselves when I saw a huge lizard about 1 meter long just walking down the bank of the rock holes. He was after some food in a girls backpack. He the walked off looking for more food.That afternoon after leaving the park Hannah fell asleep and I drove in to Darwin. We stayed at a campsite close to Darwin. Not wanting to cook tonight and to celebrate getting to Darwin we went out for beer and a pizza in the center of Darwin. We had a little drive around to see what Darwin was like then headed home for the night.