Showing posts with label Litchfield. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Litchfield. Show all posts

Monday, August 9, 2010

Care to come on a little Rainforest Walk?

Near Wangi Falls in Litchfield we took a little rainforest walk. It was very humid under the tree canopy and blisteringly hot in the sun.
Ew, bats!




And huge Northern Golden Orb spiders!




Some spectacular fungi.


And "oh so pretty" dragon flies.


Big boy and I started to look at all the different patterns on the tree trunks.
Camo.

Mini camo.

Stripey.



Bigger stripes, kind of like bamboo.


Spotty, we were speculating if the spots were actually created by bat poo!


Pretty paperbark.

It was a lovely walk. Well worth the effort.

The Moerks


Early morning camp in Litchfield.

Early morning at Florence Falls campground in Litchfield.

The sun is just peeping up through the trees.

A bright orange ball on the horizon.

Lovely spot to camp.

The billy is on for a cuppa.


Brekky then a dip in Florence Falls.

The Moerks


Monday, August 2, 2010

Lovely Litchfield

Well, we just loved Litchfield. It was so pretty, and had lots of safe water to swim in. Everything was so close and the bugs weren't too bad!




Yep, we are now in fair dinkum croc country!!


First stop, Tolmer falls. We couldn't walk in there because a) it's too jolly steep, b) its protected because of a colony of rare ghost bats, c) and orange bellied horseshoe bats.

WARNING - Grandma and Nana look away now.

This is us at the croc infested crossing, see the little sign? Will we?


You bet!

Hold on hope for the best, and see, the other car made it through just fine.


Wangi Falls, a very popular swimming hole.
I wouldn't let anyone swim because they had been closed until this day rumours of a salty were rife. No way were we going in.


Our favourite swimming place in Litchfield, Buley rockhole. Nice and clear, croc free and so much fun.
There was a series of these and so if one was a bit crowded you just moved up or down stream to another one.

How nice is that?
To top it all off we were staying in a huge, powered, grassy campsite with an ensuite and our very own washing machine and sink in the town of Batchelor. Ahh the serenity!!!

The Moerks