Photo journal of our 8-day hike across Litchfield NP8–15 March 2021
Photo journal of our 8-day hike across Litchfield NPOur hiking party, Séb, the guide, and Gernot & Trudy, is driving down from Darwin together with Russell, who will take the car back after drop-off. We have left Darwin early enough and made good progress along the way, which allows us to get underway on our treck with a full afternoon ahead of us.
Normally, Litchfield NP is a very popular park for day or overnight visitors/campers. However, we do not expect to come across any people at all, since our intended route is taking us through very secluded parts of the park. Additionally, being at the tail end of the Wet Season, not all areas are open to the general public yet, nor is the high humidity and any lingering looming downpoors a fancy drawcard.
Aboriginal site and rock art
Within the hour that we are underway on the first day, we come across some aboriginal sites and rock art—as it will turn out, this is the only place on this treck that we'll encounter any.
...be it enticing cascades as this one is saying: “come and try me out—sliding on your back”
...at the many rest sites, beseeching us “who's first dropping
their gear and hopping into the pool?”
...or as Gernot's experiencing: drenched, not so much from wading through water
neck-high or from any downpoors, merely from exertions in near-100% humidity.
Some of our campsites are plain magical:
An other day, an other campsite—with sunset
'Grass', 'more grass', 'very tall grass' — 'Spear Grass':
Hitting the end of the trail — happy as ... Trudy!
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