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Location Date Victoria 1441580400 South Australia 1441494000 Queensland 1441407600 Northern Territory
1440111600 Western Australia 1438470000 New South Wales 1380495600 -
Location Date Borraloola 1440111600 Lorella Springs 1440025200 Towns River 1439938800 Mataranka 1439766000 Garnamarr, Kakadu National Park 1439593200 Jabiru 1439420400 Mary River National Park 1439334000 Berry Springs 1439074800 Litchfield National Park
1438815600 Douglas Hot Springs 1438729200 Katherine 1438642800 Alice Springs 1434322800 Kings Canyon 1434236400 Yulara 1434150000
A late rise this morning heads a little heavier and mouths a little drier than normal. Left the camp late as we had to go for another dip in the hot springs. Joe lead us off through narrow winding roads, dodging road hogging grey nomads toeing caravans, towards Leachfield National Park. After a small detour we were on the right road to the park.
The first POI was the terminate mounds. There were the large roughly conical shaded mounds and the north south (magnetic) mounds. The termites (Amitermes meridionalis) that build the magnetic mounds construct it so to control the temperature inside the mound, one of the larger sides of the mound is in the shade at any time of the day. Temperature control is important to control bacteria and fungi in their food storage. For further information please consult Wikipedia.
Next POI was the Florence Falls. This is a 400 m walk from the carpark but the more significant part of this walk is the 135 steps of stairs. The walk is excellent on the way to the falls but by the time you get back to the carpark you need a swim. The falls are very picturesque and the water a nice temperature for a swim.
Third POI was the Tolmer Falls. A short walk to a platform lookout, no access to the falls. Again very picturesque but you have to admire from a distance. Onto the next POI, Wangi Falls. This is a large pool with two large water falls dropping into the pool. We swam and played there for over an hour, most enjoyable.
It was getting later in the day so we needed to find a campsite. Consultation with Wikicamps indicated that our best hope was Sandy Creek (Tjaynera) Falls, as only one person stayed there the previous night. Seven Kms down a narrow bumpy, windy sand track to find out a lot of other people read wikicamps, all campsites were taken. We drove from there to the Blyth Homestead for a little bit of free camping. Colin got nervous about the legalities of free camping in a National Park so we left. Just outside the Park we came across Finiss Creek which had lovely treed area beside the creek. This was a lovely night sitting by the camp fire listening to the running water, watching cane toads hopping about.
The first POI was the terminate mounds. There were the large roughly conical shaded mounds and the north south (magnetic) mounds. The termites (Amitermes meridionalis) that build the magnetic mounds construct it so to control the temperature inside the mound, one of the larger sides of the mound is in the shade at any time of the day. Temperature control is important to control bacteria and fungi in their food storage. For further information please consult Wikipedia.
Next POI was the Florence Falls. This is a 400 m walk from the carpark but the more significant part of this walk is the 135 steps of stairs. The walk is excellent on the way to the falls but by the time you get back to the carpark you need a swim. The falls are very picturesque and the water a nice temperature for a swim.
Third POI was the Tolmer Falls. A short walk to a platform lookout, no access to the falls. Again very picturesque but you have to admire from a distance. Onto the next POI, Wangi Falls. This is a large pool with two large water falls dropping into the pool. We swam and played there for over an hour, most enjoyable.
It was getting later in the day so we needed to find a campsite. Consultation with Wikicamps indicated that our best hope was Sandy Creek (Tjaynera) Falls, as only one person stayed there the previous night. Seven Kms down a narrow bumpy, windy sand track to find out a lot of other people read wikicamps, all campsites were taken. We drove from there to the Blyth Homestead for a little bit of free camping. Colin got nervous about the legalities of free camping in a National Park so we left. Just outside the Park we came across Finiss Creek which had lovely treed area beside the creek. This was a lovely night sitting by the camp fire listening to the running water, watching cane toads hopping about.
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