Florence Falls

Saturday 18th July 2009
Another cold night at Bundy Station - only 14°C in the morning. The locals are freezing and we are certainly feeling the cold.
Our camp was packed up shortly after breakfast and we were on the road heading further North towards Darwin. Before we get to the big smoke we have another two nights in Batchelor near the entrance to Litchfield National Park. We pulled into the Big4 Caravan Park at Batchelor shortly after 9am having travelled only 50km from our last camp. After a setting up camp, resting and chatting we had a bit to eat and then departed for a bit more swimming at Florence Falls in Litchfield. Today being weekend we encountered a lot more Darwinians in Litchfield than yesterday, no wonder it's only an hour out of Darwin.
This time we took goggles for the kids so they could check out the marine life in the Plunge Pool. The predominant species is the Sooty Grunter which is found in abundance and with quite good size since there's no one fishing in the pools. We were wondering if fishing is allowed as there are no signs to say otherwise. Those fish look pretty well fed and would make a good dinner for us.
After a couple of hours swimming we walked back up the 135 steps to the car park and made our way back to Batchelor where the day eventually came to an end with a frozen Mango and Ice cream desert.