Litchfield National Park

On a drizzly morning, we left the hotel and drove in a 21-seater AC coach down the Stuart Highway past cattle ranches and mango plantations before turning off to go to Litchfield NP by which time the sun had come up to make it a hot and sunny day.
We say a cathedral termite and a field of magnetic termite mounds before visiting three scenic waterfalls and plunge pools. Amanda and myself did a 2km walk around the top of the last waterfall which provided a view over the surrounding flat landscape of monsoon and savannah forest.
We had a picnic lunch provided by John, a brief sight of a possum, and sightings of kites and Major Mitchell's cockatoos or Little Corellas.
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