Sweet sweat

I've just blogged three photos taken at Litchfield the weekend before last. Litchfield National Park is about one and a half hours drive south of Darwin. There are numerous waterfalls running through the park. It is one of the most beautiful places you could ever hope to see, especially on a perfect dry season day. On this visit we had the benefit of being in a 4 wheel drive and so were able to access Sandy Creek Falls for the first time - that's me swimming there in the photo.

The clarity of the water is unbelievable, the bottom is sandy and it's fringed by pandanus and rainforest vegetation. The water is so clear that it looks about 1 to 2 feet deep but in fact, even near the edge it's around 5 to 6 feet and very deep in the middle.

About half an hour's drive along a dirt track and through a river, followed by a 2 kilometre walk will get you there from the main road. It's a beautiful walk and by the time you reach the pool you are ready for that cool swim. We had this whole pool and waterfall completely to ourselves for 2 whole hours. As we arrived one couple was just leaving. After 2 hours swimming and relaxing, we were just about to leave when another small group arrived. How lucky is that!

The giant goanna was just one of the four we saw that day and the red dragon fly, well you almost didn't see that because I've spent an hour trying to get it to load at a reasonable size as the others have. Nothing I do seems to have an effect on the size photobucket publishes my photos... guess I'll just have to be reconciled to having no side-bar for another month - though I have recently discovered I can access the side bar from the comments when it disappears from the main blog -(huh take that b...b...blogger!)