Day 28 - Litchfield National Park
What a glorious day! Litchfield is an amazing national park, with so much
to see and do. We could easily have stayed here longer. Today was lots of water
fun, enjoying the beautiful nature of this place.
After a very warm night, we awoke to a cooked brekky provided by the shared
resources of Paul, Lisa and Tracey. Eggs, bacon and hash browns were on the
menu and went down a treat. Then it was off to explore the park. First stop was
Tolmer Falls. There was a 400m walk down to the viewing platform, which
provided magnificent views of this waterfall set amongst a deep gorge. The
plunge pool at the bottom of the falls is no longer accessible to pedestrians
as they are trying to protect two species of bat which live in caves behind the
falls - the orange nosed bat and the ghost bat. Apparently population numbers
of both species are quite low so it's great to try and protect them.
We then moved on to Buley Rockpools, which was easily accessible and an
awesome set of pools cascading down over rocks over several hundred metres.
Starting at the top rockpool, we splashed our way through the pools. The
deep ones provided great entertainment as we could jump into them from the
sheer rock walls. As Paul commented, no amount of money could build something
like this.
After several hours of entertainment there, it was lunchtime so we followed
a sign we saw for hot food two kilometres down the road. This took us to the
Florence Falls carpark, where an enterprising couple had set up a mobile kiosk
in the carpark. We all enjoyed excellent steak burgers and then agreed we
should see the falls while we were here. The lookout was only 130 metres away
and the falls were amazing, so we then decided we needed to walk down to the
plunge pool below them. That was also amazing, although the force from the
waterfalls was pretty hard when we swam over and sat underneath them.
It was pretty hard work to walk out and we all got hot again. The Thomas'
went back to the rockpools for another swim, but I was on dinner duty so we
headed back to get started on that. It was still hot, so beer o'clock was
welcome. Dinner was enjoyed and then the lights were turned out to keep the
bugs away as we sat and enjoyed another warm night in nature.
posted by Tracey @ 4:49 pm
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