- The city itself (nice enough)
- Litchfield National Park (worth the trip)
I'd never heard of Litchfield before I arrived in Australia but, like everyone else who has watched Crocodile Dundee I have seen its larger neighbour Kakadu. Litchfield is a smaller version of Kakadu with more sights closer together, and whilst Kakadu is not suitable for a day trip Litchfield is. It is a national park with many billabongs, crocs, termites and other Australian nature but our tour was centered around the watering holes.
To start the day the tour headed to Adelaide River, not actually in Litchfield, for a half hour-or-so tour up the river to see saltwater crocodiles jump out of the river. The crocs were mostly around 3-4 metres long and would happily eat you if it was you hanging on the end of the rod. They eat anything with a heartbeat, as the skipper explained, or in other cases anything that recently had a heartbeat.
There was this one croc, nicknamed 'Grandpa' or 'Hannibal,' who ruled the river, the simple reason being he was massive at 6-7 metres. Whilst the crew members managed to coax Grandpa to the boat for a feed he didn't jump out of the water, if he had that would have been amazing. On the other hand just being so close to such a powerful creature in its natural habitat was exhilarating in itself. Not sure how I would have felt if the boat was not in between him and me, exhilarating probably wouldn't cover in that circumstance, dead might though.
After the tour it was into Litchfield where we visited 2 small waterfalls and swam in their pools, viewed a larger waterfall and then jumped into Buley Holes, a series of small pools. At the end we viewed some massive termite mounds and then headed home. It was a really enjoyable and relaxing tour, but not what I was expecting, there was no real walking, only a few hundred metres to billabongs and back, but the freshwater swimming was refreshing, I'd had enough of saltwater these past 10 months.
2 comments:
HI Rob honey, soz ive been out of action for a while, over the hols i had no internet at home n ofcourse i wasn't at work, but now im back at both so my next mess wont be sooooooo long sweetie. So now ive caught up its like wow u have been having an ab fab time sweetie, cant wait to hear all about it, fancy meeting prince he looks different in the flesh, can he still sing though. Emma has just been to Japan for a hol, she went with a girlfriend to see a girlfriend who is working n living over there with her boyfriend, she has just got back. N ive started divorce procedings so things have been a little emotional, but never mind 6 months time we will have a party. Well got to go Rob honey work calls. Love n hugs Auntie June xxx xxx xxx
Hi Rob,
Seems like you are having such a good time you can't give your blogs the right numbers - since when did 29 come after 38, or you're on something you're not telling us about!!!!!
Keep enjoyiong yourself
Take care
Love mum and dad xxx
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