Old note: Please accept my apologies, there are some technical issues with the 'compose' function of the blogger and I can't edit the text. Surely I must be doing something wrong. Tomorrow when I leave Kakadu, I will ring for some IT technical support. The mobile signal and internet here is horrendous.
8/8/2013 - Litchfield park
Here we are again. Finally ended up sorting the problem myself. Apparently Blogger does not support IE8 anymore, and what do you know? Windows XP does not support IE9. In other words, I need to upgrade to Windows 7. Bummer, that means that updating the blog while on this trip is going to be very difficult, as I have to rely of other people's laptops.
Anyway, here we go with the first day...
Today, we started the trip, this time is different, as I have company. I don't know how I did it, but I convinced my girlfriend to come with me for this second stage of the trip; from Darwin to Perth. I must have said something right, which comes as a complete surprise to me. Anyway, she is here and this will make the trip all more enjoyable.
The first day I picked up the bike, installed a few upgrades and we went to Litchfield National Park. On the way there, we stopped at Batchelor. Nice little town, luckily, we weren't blinking and so we didn't missed it. We saw an incredible sculpture there.
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| This castle is a sculpture created by one of the late residents of Batchelor |
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| We finally reached the entrance to the park. |
We had plans to cover all the areas of the park that we could reach via sealed roads. There are a number of waterfalls, swimming holes, the magnetic termite mounds, etc.
We reached the magnetic termite mounds, these are incredible, in fact all termite mounds in the area are incredible, on the one hand you have the 'cathedral' mounds; these termites create gigantic mounds in the loose shape of a cathedral. Her is one of them.
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| Yes, I know! It doesn't reeeeaaaally look like a cathedral. You need to exercise your imagination. |
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| There you go! a magnetic termite mound on the front and a 'cathedral' at the back. The magnetic one is over 2 metres high.. |
Magnetic mounds are apparently very special, there is only one type of termite that makes them like this. These mounds are flat, and they are always oriented from south to north. Many theories about why they do it like that, but nothing really plausible. I guess it just the way they like it!
Then we arrived at our first swimming hole and waterfall. We liked it so much that we ended up spending the rest of the day there and didn't see anything else in the park.
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| A nice walk to the falls and the rockhole. Recommended! |
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| The walk is well maintained, with cute bridges over the creeks. |
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| Finally the falls and the tourists, of course |
We ended up seeing just one waterfall, I'd like to think that this one is the best of all the falls in Litchfield, if you know otherwise, please don't tell me!
Tomorrow to head for Kakadu.
