Have a nice lazy start to the day when John comes over and gee’s us up to start our day, he wants to be on the way by 9:00. Hmmm we are running a little behind time. It’s a good idea though, the days are very hot and walking in the early morning or late afternoon, with a swim in the middle is a great idea.
The owner of the park is doing the rounds and wants to know ‘what is wrong’ with the park, I say “the generator”. Now I have to tell you that the knowledge that the noise I heard at night was the park generator was a great disappointment to me. I had been lying in bed thinking that I was being lulled to sleep by some waterfall!
I ask him about ‘bush typhus’ which is apparently here in Lichfield park. He tells us that it is a mite, dropped from a native rodent, it burrows into the skin and the skin around the area reddens, the mite then causes blood poisoning which resembles the flu, if not treated it can be fatal, but he knows of only one fatality in the 17 years that he has been here and the victim was stupid. So my dears, if we come down with flu and have red spots you know what we might have. The treatment is for that of blood poisoning. Don’t worry, it is rarely caught.
We get a hurry on and head off to Wangi Falls.
Sigh, beautiful, beautiful, we go for the loop walk, I think about 1.6 km up and over the falls, although not yet 10:00 it is already hot.
We visit Tolmer Falls, Florence Falls and Buley waterholes where we swim. There is a sign at the entrance to the Buley Falls “If the car park is full Buley Falls is crowded”. The car park is not very large but we are lucky and find a nice little waterhole all to ourselves.
Back to camp to rest in the heat of the day, such a hard life.
In the morning when we spoke to the owner of the camp, he told us of a ‘shortcut’ to Crystal Cascades, not a long walk, through the park, over the highway and there it is! The plan is to walk there late in the afternoon for a swim. Hmmm. Through the park OK, over the highway, OK. Hello! bitumen road to walk down, oh well, in for a penny in for a pound as they say. Not too far down the road, all is good. What! Crystal cascades is another 1.6 km! Off we go, easy at first then very difficult, we have to cross a rocky stream and walk up rocks in a river. Young people we meet who are on their way back tell us it is a very difficult walk. (we are not so young). We finally get to the lower cascades for our swim. We are not going any further. The intrepid Peter C however always wants to know what is over the next hill so he goes to look. Gone for a while, comes back and tells us much nicer pool further up. Tough – we are not moving.
Lovely swim then back to camp for “happy hour’
Tony, Jen and Dean have arrived at camp and tell us about the beauty of Surprise falls, they enjoyed their stay there very much. Dean has been offered 2 jobs!!!! One by a lady on a homestead they visited, as a tour guide, the other by our camp owner to maintain the roads. Well I never! They have also visited the lost city which is an interesting set of rock formations.
We hit the road tomorrow for Darwin.
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