Ellery Creek Big Hole – Alice Springs 30th June

In the morning we drove out to Redbank Gorge to have a look short walk into this gorge, had lunch at finke River 2 mile bush camp very nice. Now onto Ormiston gorge to have a look, then Serpentine gorge before heading into Alice and get into the park before it got to late.

Devils Marbles Ellery Creek Big Hole 29th June

We arrived in Alice around 1pm and decided to head out to the West Macdonald ranges for the night and before we left there we had to book into a park for a couple of nights had trouble getting a spot eventually found on at the big 4

By the time we got to Ellery Creek it was 3pm and not sure we would find a spot, the only spot left was on a bit of a slope and we even had to sleep up the other end of the bed.

Daly Waters Pub – Devils Marbles 28th June

We got away around 9:00am today as we had a far drive not sure we were going to make it to the marbles, had a quick stop at three ways before heading on.

Through Tennant creek around 3pm and we did arrive at the marbles at 4pm and could not get into the camp ground full.  So we hung around the day use area all afternoon and waited for it to get dark before setting up as no camping here but there was now where else to go.

Bitter Springs – Daly Waters Pub 27th June

We went down to the springs for a swim before leaving today and it was very nice, we were only heading off to Daly waters for the night which was not very far.

We arrived at the pub around 12:30 lined up to get into the park as it is always this busy in the winter.

Had all afternoon in the dusty park lucky the wind was not blowing and at 5pm went to the pub for happy hr and dinner was for 7pm. There was entertainment all the time and we had Beef and Barra for dinner very nice.

Douglas Hot Springs – Bitter Springs 26th June

Before heading off today we decided to take a drive out to Butterfly gorge it was only 17ks 4x4 track and took around 1hr to get there.

Walked into the gorge not much to see even tried the walk to the top no view from there so back to the car and return to get the vans.

Grab a few things at Katherine Woolworths and some more Barramundi. Now onto Bitter Springs getting very late now just made it in time to walk down to the springs for a swim and had to walk back to the van in the dark.

Litchfield Tourist Park – Douglas Hot Springs 25th June

Jack drove us to Berry Springs to see if the car was ready and as we arrived they were filling it up with water so things must have gone well and now we could get on our way after we fixed up the bill.

We had to return to the caravan park 3/4hrs away to pick up the vans before heading off so it was now around 11:30am and the day was getting on.

At 12:30 we arrived at the Adelaide WWII cementry which was very interesting we had a walk around before having lunch in the park.

Finally we made it to the hot springs found a spot a bit crowed and very dusty, changed into swimmers and walked down to the hot springs in parts it was very hot so you had to find a spot down river that you could sit in.

Litchfield Tourist Park 24th June

 

Another day waiting for our car to be fixed and Paul rang them several times and now they are saying it will not be ready until later in the day that means tomorrow.  So we filled in the day reading, cooking, reading and waiting.

We did home some entertainment today as a wide load went passed so that was something different.  4pm and we still have not heard anything, so it looks as though it will be tomorrow now. 
 

Litchfield Tourist Park 23rd June

 

Spent the day washing and the boys had a hair cut by Pam, did some washing caught up on photos cleaned up the vans for the next leg of our trip.

While our dinner cooked we had a great game of cards. 

Litchfield N.P Monday 22nd June

 

This morning we drove into Berry Springs around 1hr from here to see what was happening with the car as the phone service is not real good. We arrived and they told us it might be 2,000.00 to fix and a week.

As we are in Jack’s car now back to Litchfield for the last lot of falls first call was Bamboo Creek abandoned tin mine and lunch before moving onto Buley rockhole which was very crowed but lovely the next one is Florence falls with 135 stairs down not hard though very crowed here to but nice water was very cool.

Back to camp to find out more on the car as we could not get phone it was into Batchler phone service good there, the better news on the car was a egr pipe had cracked and hopfully we will have it back by Wednesday. 
 
 
 

Litchfield N.P Sunday 21st June

 

Today we all went in Jacks car as we thought it would not be good to drive ours with the noise it was making. Our first stop was walker creek this was a 3.5km return walk to the top with campsite along the way.

Now onto the Cascades and it was about 4km return walk in with some rock hopping at the end and we had it mostly to ourselves it was a good spot too.  Next stop back to Wangi Falls the other had a 1.7km walk around the top and I decided to stay near the plunge pool where it was cool and when they returned we all had a swim before heading back to camp.

We called into to have a look at Tolmer falls as it was only a lookout there.  When we got back to camp we called NRMA to get someone to have a look at our car and when they arrived they suggested we put it on a truck back to Berry Springs and we could choose the next day what we wanted to do with it.

Litchfield N.P Saturday 20th June (NT school hols started)

 

We had to travel from here into the national park so our first port of call was Blyth Homestead then Tjaynera Falls which was a 1.7km walk into the falls not hard though nice spot had a swim. Now onto Wangi Falls after having some lunch.

It was crowed at these falls but very nice had a great swim and now it was 3pm, we jumped into the cars and when we started ours it was making a very bad noise so all out to have a look and decided to go straight back to camp 52ks from here. 
 

 

 

Berry Springs – Litchfield N.P 19th June

We left camp early today 8:30am heading for Litchfield N.P through the back way, we did not get far and Jack’s engine warning light came on in his car we had a look for awhile and decided to head back to Darwin (Toyota) to see what the problem was.

We hung around there all day and they came up with the battery was on its way out so they replaced that and around 3pm we were on our way out of Darwin again.

We arrived at Litchfield Tourist park outside the national park around 5pm so we decided it was time to pull in there and stay.

Darwin – Berry Springs 18th June

We are heading out of Darwin but we will be back great place, now onto Berry Springs to see what it offers we arrived at the Berry Springs reserve had a lovely swim in the spring we spent a far bit of time here as it was a great place had lunch in the car park. 

We travelled a bit further to Tumbling waters caravan park, found a spot for the vans before heading out to have a look at Mandorah which was on the other side of Darwin.

Found a WWII crashed aircraft in the bush and then headed back to camp, next time on our must list is the animal park and crocodilius park.