We have just had 3 lovely days in Litchfield National Park. Beautiful waterfalls, swimming holes with crystal clear water and jumping rocks for the kids, nice creek walks and bush camping.
We based ourselves at Wangi Falls. It’s lovely bush camp and the falls are only a few minutes walk. There is a huge plunge pool to swim in – with good jump rocks for the kids. There was also cool little rock pool in the rock beside one of the pools – only just over a metre across, but so deep you can’t touch the bottom.
Nick, Maria and Karina came down for the the day on Sunday and we had a picnic at our campground before heading to Buley Rock Pools. These are a series of pretty waterfalls and plunge pools.
The kids loved jumping from the rocks!!
Florence Falls are lovely and have such crystal clear water.
We took the 150-step decent to the plunge pools and came back via a pretty creek walk.
There’s more than just waterfall’s at Litchfield. We took a drive out to a place they call the Lost City due to the rock formations looking like the ruins of an old city – pretty cool!
Fun for the boys climbing, jumping and playing amounts the rocks.
We thought the prettiest falls were Tjaynera Falls.
To get to the falls we had to take a 4WD track, then a half-hour walk. Needless to say it wasn’t busy like the other falls, so that was part of the appeal.
Also along the same 4WD track is Blyth Homestead, built in 1929, and still in the state it was abandoned in the 1960’s. It still contained a lot of original artefacts and a very interesting story of how tough it was living in the bush in those early days.
We have really enjoyed our time in Litchfield. By chance, there happened to be quite a few kids the boys age, who they soon made friends with. So when we weren’t out swimming and sightseeing, they were riding their bikes and hanging with their new friends – and we had a great night around the bonfire with all the parents.
The Travelling Dixons 