Litchfield national park: Wangi falls, Florence falls ,Buley rock holes and the lost city

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We finally sadly farewelled Western Australia on the 3rd of July crossing the border in to the Northern Territory

Our journey continued north with an overnight stop at Pine Creek. We had a lovely meal and a quiet night and picked up a great peanut M&Ms ice cream , from the convenience store.

Our destination on the 4th of July was 

Litchfield National Park

We chose to stay at the Wangi Falls camp ground, at an unpowered site. 

We had a great reverse in , but were a little concerned that the site was quite shaded by trees , which would make it difficult to maintain charge for our batteries. 

Regardless we set the van up and headed to the falls and the pool.

Where we spent a lovely hour or so swimming.

The next day we headed off to explore the national park 

First stop

Florence falls

We chose to walk to the look out first,so i could get photos then down the 135 stairs to the falls 

So Gadget being the game person in the family (always the first in out pool at home) went for a swim
To be honest it wasn’t that cold really , i just wasn’t ready to swim yet.

I did walk in up to my thighs to be able to get this photo , I should have sent gadget into the middle with the go pro, but I was pretty happy with this shot. We hung around here for a bit then started the walkthrough the rainforest 

Back to the car park. It was a lovely easy walk, crossing the creek multiple times as we walked.

After Florence falls we headed to 

Buley Rockhole.

This spot was very very popular and it was difficult to get a photo not filled with people.

Buley rock holes are a series of small waterfalls and rock holes, some were really quite deep . We both had a swim here, well really we just lazed in one of the rock pools. Interestingly this water actually connects with Florence falls ,but was much cooler than the  falls.

After enjoying the swimming we decided to go for an adventure and take Reggie 4WDing

We headed to the 

Lost city

The roadie was a 4WD only track 

However to be honest it was just a corrugated road with a few sandy spots and was really no challenge at all for Reggie. However the websites and guides indicate that it can be quite rough and is always closed in the wet season. 

The lost city is eight kilometres off the main Litchfield road . The site is really quiet impressive and is reminiscent of the ruins of a lost civilisation.  

These totally natural structures have been formed by thousands of years of wind, rain and erosion creating narrow passages that you can wander through.  The formations are spread over an area the size of a small town and look like the man made ruins of a lost city. The sandstone is estimated to be over 500 million years old. 

It was a pretty cool thing to see

After all this adventuring and wandering, we really needed another swim so we headed back to Ruby to get changed, sadly we discovered that our concerns were validated and the solar panels on the van really hadn’t picked up much sun whilst we were away and even the portable one that we had set up hadn’t either. So we moved the portable one into the sun and headed off for a quick swim , returning early so we could continue moving the solar panel around to re-charge the battery.

Whilst we were sitting relaxing (monitoring the sun movements ) we heard a rustling in the bush around us and out jumped this little wallaby.  It was obviously not very concerned about humans as it got really quite close to where we were sitting , it was pretty cool to watch it scratch through the leaves looking or food.

We had a great first day at Litchfield 


Until the next blog

Travel safe 

The Touring Knights

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