Litchfield National Park

Litchfield is 100 odd kilometres South of Darwin We headed there after hearing nothing but great reports about the place and we weren’t disappointed. We loved it, it's famous for the huge magnetic ant hills in the park. We saw heaps of them and they are huge!




We decided to base ourselves at Wangi Falls and do the park in halves, we spent two days there. The waterfalls are spectacular here, our favourite being Florence Falls and Tjaynera Falls, or Sandy Creek as they are known. Down near Sandy Creek there is Blyth homestead to go and visit, it's in great order and demonstrates how hard it was in the early 1900's to live in Australia, an old tin mine was up the road as well and interesting to look at. We also went and saw a lost city, made up of sandstone features that look like an ancient city abandoned.

Blyth homestead.



A little water fall spa we found.



Tin mine in Litchfield.



Sandy Creek Falls.



We basically went to every water hole/water fall in the park, bush walked to it, swam for a bit then onto the next one. We had a ball here and would recommend it. Onto Katherine now and west from there to Kununurra.