Tuesday, Oct 4th, Litchfield

Greetings!

 An interesting experiment.  I'm going to read from Pat's Journal.

 We had a leisurely wakeup to very humid weather. We hit it into Litchfield Park -a lovely drive with lots of greenery trees, tree ferns, and palms.  First stop was the magnetic termite man field - big flattened structures, oriented north south to minimize the impact of the sun's heat.  Also Cathedral Mounds, huge multi -pillared structures from a second termite variety.  Then to a series of falls and rock holes, most swimmable with lots of Aussies taking advantage of their noodles.  Florence was the highlight, with twin falls and swimmers in the deep pools, swimming behind the falls.  Also Tolmer Falls.  We hiked up to two overlooks to the thin stream cascading way down, with a vast lookout to the plateau below.  No swimming here - to protect the two species of rare bats.  What a view.  We see rain clouds forming in, coming our way.  By the time we get to the last stop at Florence falls, it started down pouring.  We waited about 40 minutes, and it never let up so we headed back to avoid any flooding.  But it was a downpour all the way back, diminishing as we neared the campground.

 And then off to bachelor for dinner - a funky butterfly farm guest house and café which served up Nasi Gorin and Kung Pao chicken like we've never had before, and hopefully not to meet again. Tomorrow, we spend our last night and Darwin.

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