More Litchfield & Darwin

Hey there :-)

Sunday night and have had a busy but great couple of days.   Saturday we spent in Litchfield National Park, fitting in as much as we could.  Started the day with an exciting 4x4 trek through the scrub to see the "Lost City" - unusual rock formations we read, not expecting anything spectacular, but apart from the 10.5km drive in, which was hair-raising and bone crunching, but the rocks were indeed unusual & fascinating.  It really did look like a ruined city long abandoned and lost amongst the forest.  Weird !!

We could not believe some of the precarious positions of the rocks, one stacked on top of another.  A really amazing place and well worth the bush bashing off-roading we did on the way in.  Took nearly 1/2hr to drive the 10.5kms in and almost the same time driving out.  Was great fun though, and of course Trev enjoyed the drive.  Bit of a change from the bitumen.

Next we went on to Wangi Falls via a couple of other falls on the way.  Wangi is large and lovely, but being a long weekend every man and his dog were out enjoying the refreshing waters, and shady trees under which to spend a warm afternoon.  You could be forgiven for thinking you were in Germany, France or some other European country as there are many tourists in this neck of the woods.   A lot of young people obviously doing a gap year and working their way around Australia.

The countryside along the way is so dry, and in many places there appeared to have been controlled burn-off of the long grass amidst the several varieties of blackened gum trees and many of what we used to be allowed to call "Blackboys", looking for the world like armies of skinny legged picaninnies adorned with feathered headresses standing among the trees.

Although it's hot during the day, like 30-35 the nights are cool, even quite cold in the early morning.  Nice !!

So today we moved north to Berry Springs, had a quick dip at the National Park swimming hole here, and then drove into Darwin, via Humpty Doo where we are getting the car serviced on Tuesday morning.

After a bit of a drive into Darwin, out to Lee Point and then along the coast at Nightscliffe, we sat by the jetty there, watching the sun go down, and enjoying fish & chips, followed by a real coffee. The temperature was just perfect, 25 or so, and with the balmiest breeze imaginable.  Delightful end to a lovely day.

We've spent a bit of time in Darwin in the past, so will probably stay somewhere close to the city, attend to a couple of jobs & then head out west.  Really looking forward to WA.

Goodnight