After spending four months exploring the National Parks in WA, we kick off the NT parks list with Litchfield. Its a 300km drive from Katherine to Litchfield Safari Camp, set in the heart of the National Park.

As with most camps, we have discovers that unpowered sites are not only cheaper, they also offer more space and flexibility with how and where you set up your camp. The powered sites are usually bunched together (for obvious reasons that it’s easier to run power and water to a central area) and you can get pretty close at times to your camp neighbours. Once again, the flexibility of being able to camp unpowered worked in our favour and we found a great spot with an awesome fire pit to finish up the day after a big drive.

Unlike other National Parks we have visited so far, Litchfield is all about the destination inside the park. There is a singe road through the park and driving along, the view is pretty consistent and heavily vegetated on both sides of the road. We have a guide book with vague descriptions of the main attractions so we plotted our route for the day and set off.

Florence Falls was first on the list. A short walk down 134 stairs from the car park and we arrived (as the name suggests) at a waterfall with a swimming hole. When we arrived at the car park, it was clear we were not the only ones with this same plan for the morning, but the crowds didn’t dampen the kids spirit for a swim and we plunged into swimming hole number one.

We decided to take the slightly longer walk back to the car, along the boardwalks and path that takes you by the river. It felt like walking through a rainforest. Everything was so green.

A short distance from Florence Falls, we found Bluey Rockholes. One of the best things about our travelling set up is the fridge in the back of the car and the drawer system we have which makes it really easy to store food. Picnic lunch sorted and then we set off down to Bluey Rockholes for swim number 2. Unlike Florence Falls, Blueys was more about the layers of small swimming holes. This was actually way more fun for the kids and also slightly easier to find some space. Lots of fun enjoying rock jumps and a nice way to spend the afternoon.

Day two, we started off our adventure with a non water based walk and headed to find the Lost City. To be really clear, this is not a Lost City of an ancient civilisation but it is a really cool collection of sandstone rocks (and a great place to play hide and seek!).

Walk through the Lost City done and we set off down a 4WD track to find Tjaynera Falls. Bring 9km off the main road, with a pretty deep river crossing on the way, the car park at Tjaynera was certainly quieter than everywhere else. A 2km walk from the car park took us through some pretty cool palms and a different type of feel to the ‘rainforest feel’ at Florence Falls. Once again, we were rewarded with an impressive waterfall and sing swimming hole. I think this one may have been our favourite of the Litchfield sights.

The kids still had energy for one more walk so we headed for Cascades, only 100m away from the camp ground so an easy way to end the day.

A fun end to the afternoon but I think we are all well and truly ‘water holed’ out! It has been a fun few days exploring Litchfield. There are certainly longer walks we could have taken, and always more to see, but our three nights at Litchfield Safari Camp are up and it’s time to head up to Dundee Beach and make sure the ocean is still there (even if we can’t swim in this one!).