Nan and the kids in the main pool
Kids in the lowest pool
Kids in the top pool
Nan and Hannah
Kids in the cascade in the top pool
Well our last day in Litchfield NP and Berry Springs. After having a few long days traveling around Litchfield, we decided to have a day of not doing much and beginning to pack up ready to move on.
We went up to the café for morning tea. Mum could get a proper coffee (something that she had seem to struggle with as either they ran out of coffee beans (Kakadu) or the machine broke down (Mindil market)). Jacob was also keen for a smoothie and he was adamant I owed him one because the bombers had beaten the pies the week before and we apparently had a bet.
After morning tea we went down to Berry Springs to give the kids a swim in the natural springs. It was something that again the kids enjoyed. We have decided the kids (especially Hannah) rate a place on the food and swimming! They found a rope where they were able to swing on and jump off into the middle of the pool. They struggled to leave this pool, but then worked their way up stream to the top pool where they were able to sit under a small cascade. Jacob scared us at one point disappearing, only to discover he went behind the falls and we didn't realise.
I enjoyed the swim except for the biting fish that were also sharing the springs. I had also had trouble with them at Florence falls in Litchfield. I had decided that they liked my mossie bites and that was why I seemed to be the one getting attacked the most.
Picnic lunch was had here where we had another group join our table and share with us a watermelon that was fresh from a farm in Arnhem Land. The kids loved this. The watermelon wasn't as sweet as ours is down home.
We also took some replica photos of the kids in a similar spot to where we took photos with my aunty and uncle 7 years ago. Mum took their spot and we also had an extra child in Hannah than we did back then. This is also a spot I remember visiting when on holidays back in 1982 with my mum and dad.
After a good few hours here we went back to camp to get organised to move on before heading out for tea and enjoying a yummy seafood platter (although Hannah has decided oysters are nicer when done Kilpatrick not natural).
Our time at Tumbling Waters has been a memorable one and a place we would recommend to anyone traveling up this way.
We went up to the café for morning tea. Mum could get a proper coffee (something that she had seem to struggle with as either they ran out of coffee beans (Kakadu) or the machine broke down (Mindil market)). Jacob was also keen for a smoothie and he was adamant I owed him one because the bombers had beaten the pies the week before and we apparently had a bet.
After morning tea we went down to Berry Springs to give the kids a swim in the natural springs. It was something that again the kids enjoyed. We have decided the kids (especially Hannah) rate a place on the food and swimming! They found a rope where they were able to swing on and jump off into the middle of the pool. They struggled to leave this pool, but then worked their way up stream to the top pool where they were able to sit under a small cascade. Jacob scared us at one point disappearing, only to discover he went behind the falls and we didn't realise.
I enjoyed the swim except for the biting fish that were also sharing the springs. I had also had trouble with them at Florence falls in Litchfield. I had decided that they liked my mossie bites and that was why I seemed to be the one getting attacked the most.
Picnic lunch was had here where we had another group join our table and share with us a watermelon that was fresh from a farm in Arnhem Land. The kids loved this. The watermelon wasn't as sweet as ours is down home.
We also took some replica photos of the kids in a similar spot to where we took photos with my aunty and uncle 7 years ago. Mum took their spot and we also had an extra child in Hannah than we did back then. This is also a spot I remember visiting when on holidays back in 1982 with my mum and dad.
After a good few hours here we went back to camp to get organised to move on before heading out for tea and enjoying a yummy seafood platter (although Hannah has decided oysters are nicer when done Kilpatrick not natural).
Our time at Tumbling Waters has been a memorable one and a place we would recommend to anyone traveling up this way.
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