Lichfield national park to Daily river

All rejuvenated we left Darwin and headed south about 80 clicks back to a beautiful bush camp for a good quiet nights sleep in our own bed. The next day we headed to Lichfield National park to find out what it had for us to see. First up was an old tin mine, built in the late 1800s in the middle of nowhere where everything was done with a pick and shovel and the skill full use of gravity and water. Once they harvested the tin they bagged it, then back packed it on horses to where they could put it on a dray to take to the train station which went to Darwin. All that in this incredible heat and humidity, brave soles!!!
We then hoped back into our air conditioned truck and drove 50 or 60 clicks to a beautiful waterfall and swimming hole , which was closed because of a fresh water crocodile, l’ll bet a penny for a pound those tin miners would not have cared and gone for a swim!!!! When we found out the truth it was the people who wouldn’t leave the croc alone not the other way around. We camped that night in a shady, grassy camp ground in the middle of the national park, so peaceful. The park has lots of waterfalls and swimming holes, so much so by the end I reckoned I was washing off my tan😆😆.
We stayed another 4 days in the park and saw a lost city, which was a whole lot of columns of rocks stacked on top of each other, another tin mine even more remote and as I said lots more water falls.
The top of Lichfield park is on a sealed road , with hundreds of people on it at any one time, whereas the connection road down to the Daly River Road was a lovely four wheel drive only road, so instead of having 50 or 60 people in a swimming hole we only had to put up with half a dozen folk, and like minded people they were too, so a lovely ending to Lichfield.

From there we went to the infamous Daly River Crossing, which is famous for its crocs and mishaps. No free camps here so we stayed in a camp called Nancar Wilderness Retreat, only $26 a night, right on the Daly river and three beautiful big billabongs to walk around. We saw lots of bird life, crocs,wild pigs but still no buffaloe. It would be a great place to be in the wet, completely surrounded and cut off by the Daly river for a couple of months (heaven). Only way in and out is by boat and at that time of year you can catch Barra both ways. 😃😃.
From here we’ll go back down to Katherine and hopefully this time we will get to see Katherine gorge.Leer más