Litchfield National Park, NT:

We spent 3 days at Litchfield National Park exploring all the waterfalls, rock pools & other sights in the park. My photos will never do this National Park justice... just one breathtaking spot after another.

Batchelor:

We stayed at Batchelor Caravan Park and camped under some shady tropical palm trees for 3 nights - it was wonderful and a great place to relax and base ourselves while we explored Litchfield National Park.

Each night at Batchelor Caravan Park they have a bird feeding & all the wild parots come in for a visit - they are just lovely.

Litchfield National Park Highlights:

There are so many highlights - I will work down from our favourite backwards;

Tjaynera Falls:

You can only access this beautiful waterfall & rockpool via a 4WD track, as it requires a river crossing to get into the area and then a 1.7km hike one way through the forest/jungle to reach the rockpool ... but wow was it worth it. There was no one else at the falls when we arrived, so we had it all to ourselves for a while before any one else showed up - it was heaven.

Swimming under the Tjaynera Falls in the crystal clear, cool water on a hot day, with not another sole in sight was a definate highlight on our trip so far. My photos go no where near depicting the absolute beauty of this place - it's breathtaking ... if there is a garden of Eden this is it!

The last couple of photos show the dirt road & river crossing in to Tjaynera Falls.

Old Blyth Homestead:

Very interesting and again no one else was there when we visited. The Blyth family mined tin from the creek near Blyth Homestead in the late 1800's - the family had 10 children in total (some of them were born in this shack) & the children started working in the mine at the age of 10 years - it was hot, hard, deadly work in croc and mosquito infested territory. In summary - tough, short, crazy people lived here!

Driving the 4WD track into Blyth Homestead was fun too, with further river crossings on the way in and then back out.

Florence Waterfall:

Very crowded & popular (even with a large number of stairs to walk down & back up to get down to the rock pool) - but spectacular just the same and lovely cool, deep water to swim in - we swam out to get under the waterfall.

Buley Rockpool:

Another popular but lovely spot, with easy access to the water and lots of rockpools to cool off and relax in - we enjoyed an afternoon swim here.

Wangi Waterfall & Forest Walk:

A very pretty place - we were unable to swim at the moment which was a bit disappointing, but we enjoyed a tree top walk through the forest as well while we were there (with lots of Orb spiders!).

Tolmer Waterfall:

Very pretty, but another waterfall that you can only look at from a distance - because protected bats live in the caves around the falls - so nice to look at but not as interactive from our perspective. However, there were also a large variety of native flowering plants growing along the walk to the falls lookout, that were very pretty and/or unusual.

Bamboo Creek Tin Mine Ruins:

Interesting history in the old tin mine ruins.

Giant Magnetic Termite Mounds:

Fascinating and they are found throughout the National Park.

Tabletop Swamp:

We only stopped here for a short visit (Mandy was too worried about the unseen crocodiles that may have been watching us & looking for breakfast - so we didn't linger any longer than we needed). However, there were some very nice paperbark trees here.