Thursday, June 26, 2008

Litchfield National Park

Last Wednesday we left Daly River and headed further north. Litchfield National Park starts about 60 km west from the Stuart Highway, and the gateway into the park is a little town called Batchelor. We set up camp there in a very beautiful caravanpark.
On friday we had a day drive into the National Park itself. I updated the photobook with some pictures. It was a very rewarding day ! Too bad we could not have a swim in one of the rockpools below the waterfalls because of the presence of some crocs.
Sunday we drove to Berry Springs, 80 km from Batchelor, to have a look at our next caravanpark. Its near the Northern Territory Wildlife Park that we would like to visit, so why not set up camp there. It looked very nice. But on Wednesday, as we prepared to drive on, we changed plans and drove directly to the neighbourhood of Darwin. We heard that it is very very busy in all the caravanparks in and around Darwin and making a phonecall confirmed that. So we grabbed the empty spot that Howard Springs Caravan Resort had to offer.

In the meantime we have been in contact with Christopher and Annie, Pam's
cousin's son and his wife. They live in another suburb of Darwin (don't laugh, it is called Humpty Doo) and have enhoughspace on their property for our caravan to be left there while we visit
Europe in August. We will visit Cris and Annie in the weekend and have a nice family update.

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