Today we explored the Litchfield National Park, definitely a place to wear your bathers  as every waterhole invited you in.  First we had to have a photo with the magnetic termite mounds, standing up to five metres in height and possibly 50 years old.  This configuration acts as a built in temperature control  mechanism allowing only the least possible surface area to be exposed to the heat or the sun.

Buley Rockhole was a series of small waterfalls and rockholes where we just paddled our feet, next was Florence Falls which was a spectacular double waterfall set amid monsoon rainforest, we walked the 1.2k to the plunge pool  and after our swim  back to the car via the 135 stairs.  When we got to the Cascades we were only going to go the 700m to the small falls, we went in to discover that when you stood under them it was like having a massage.  We had clambered over rocks to get there and thought going  the 1.7k circuit back to the car could not be that bad.  We treated ourselves to Mango Cheesecake at the Litchfield Café before going to Wangi Falls which was only 200m to the water where another refreshing swim was had. Wangi with the waterfalls cascading 100’s of metres over sheer rock face into a huge natural swimming  pool was probably the most spectatular, we had our picnic lunch here before heading back to the van park at Batchelor.

Cascades

 

 

Florence Falls

                                                                       

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Wangi Falls