Week Eight day fifty and fifty one

Lilly Pilly

Our night in the "Bush Bungalow" proved to be very restful ........and different we felt as if we were sleeping rough as the sides of the bungalow were so designed to allow maximum airflow..... so no lights on inside !!!!!! We were quickly on the road to Kakadu Nourlangie Region we wandered amongst the Aboriginal rock art, rock overhangs and the fauna and flora. The views were fantastic.

One "rock art" picture depicted an evil spirit........Nabulwinjbulwinj (pronounced Nar-bull-win-bull-win) He eats females after striking them with a yam. Mmmmmmmmmmm.

Nabulwinjbulwinj

After downing 2 litres of water between us, we returned from our stroll amongst the the rock art. From there we went to Warradjan Cultural Centre.It was extremely interesting wandering around the exhibitions and reading the Aboriginal story.

An overhang with rock art.

We then headed for Batchelor, the entry point for the Litchfield National Park. We stayed the night at the Litchfield Tourist Park, so only a short drive into the park. Our first stop this morning was to view the magnetic termite mounds. They belong to the grass eating Cathedral Termites. This mound is about 50 years old. They align their termite mounds facing North to South.

John and Hope dwarfed by the termite mound.

From there we headed to Tolmer waterfall and then onto Wangi Falls. Unfortunately no swimming was allowed as there was still a risk of salties. However we did do the tree top walk through the rainforest. It was very humid but beautiful. There were "flying foxes" in the trees (bats), golden orb spiders between the branches, right in our path and unfortunately we seemed to be the first to walk through. Wendy had a few spider webs in her face, but then swapped with Hope, who copped the big one. Luckily though as she is short, she missed the spider. Wendy would not have been so lucky John walked at the back so all the spiders were cleared by the girls. he he he

Florence Falls from the view point.

There were loads of butterflies and mushrooms. Wangi falls were magnificent and the mist was refreshing, however we needed to cool off, so off to Buley Rockpools and Florence Falls. Buley was busy so we headed to Florence. Going down was easy, with the sound of the waterfall in our ears, and the though of a cold dip, spurred us on. We dumped our stuff and headed in, it wasn't as cold as we thought it would be. But so much colder than the warm pool water we have been trying to cool off in. There were loads of fish, so John went and got our snorkels, brilliant, the water was so clear.

Florence falls swimming hole.

However as the morning progressed the falls started getting busy as well, so with a sad look back we started back up the 139 steps to the top. However on the way back we spotted a Small eared rock wallaby. He was so cute, and yes we did use it as an excuse to catch our breath.

Back to Darwin..........