Day 38 - Litchfield National Park

Florence Falls

Day 37 - Thursday - 25/6/2026

Today we drove to Adelade River to pick up my grandma's sister who we call Auntie Kathy, who will travel with us for about 10 days, then we drove to Batchelor. At Batchelor we went for a swim and then looked at the owner feed about 50 very noisy corellas.  She also gave us some delicious dumplings, and we played mini golf and Seb won.

Day 38 - Friday - 26/6/2026

Today we drove into Litchfield National Park where we went to Florence falls. On the way we stopped at the colossal magnetic termite mounds which were all aligned north to south to get the most shade possible.

Magnetic Termite Mounds

The waterfall was much taller than Edith Falls, and you could go under it.  it was very busy and there were lots of people swimming.

Swimming with Auntie Kathy


Swimming in the water

The water was around the same temperature except everywhere was in the shade of the big, tall trees. There were also a bunch of these big black fish in the water called Sooty Grunters which were pretty friendly. 

Sooty Grunter

Then we walked about 2km to Buley Rockholes. The walk was along a scenic creek through the forest with huge spiders and a lot of butterflies. 

Giant spider

Butterfly

The rock holes weren't super big, but it was fun because we climbed up a lot of them and got pretty far up stream. 

Climbing the rocks

We also had fun jumping off some rocks into the deep water.


Comments

  1. AnonymousJune 29, 2026 at 4:01 PM

    nice

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  2. AnonymousJune 29, 2026 at 4:04 PM

    Mini golf is awesome and dumplings delicious sounds like your having an amazing time!

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  3. AnonymousJune 29, 2026 at 4:05 PM

    that sound so much fun I think those 50 corellas would have been really loud

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    1. DanielJune 29, 2026 at 5:10 PM

      They have woken me up almost every morning.

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  4. AnonymousJune 29, 2026 at 4:05 PM

    That sounds really fun and wet.

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  5. MeenakshiJune 29, 2026 at 4:11 PM

    Swimming in a waterfall sounds really cool. Hope you are having a lot of fun around Australia. It must cool enough to be swimming there while it is almost freezing cold here in Canberra.

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  6. MeenakshiJune 29, 2026 at 4:12 PM

    That spider looks freaky

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    1. DanielJune 29, 2026 at 5:18 PM

      You should have seen it in real life.

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  7. AnonymousJune 29, 2026 at 4:12 PM

    From yoesel; I like how you show the image of the animals and I also like how you explain what you were doing where you were going.

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  8. BellaJune 29, 2026 at 4:15 PM

    Woah! That waterfall is so beautiful! Hope the rest of australia is super fun! That is a VERY creepy spider lol. We are freezing our butts off in canberra, so hope it's nice and warm where you are!

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    1. DanielJune 29, 2026 at 5:18 PM

      Thanks, but honestly, I prefer 10-degree whether over 30.

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  9. XavianJune 29, 2026 at 4:17 PM

    Mini Golf seems fun Dan and the animal photos are nice!

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  10. AnonymousJuly 23, 2026 at 4:10 PM

    cool banana bean

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  11. AnonymousJuly 29, 2026 at 4:10 PM

    I wish I could be there

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