Australia Day 4 - Litchfield National Park

We drove south out of Kakadu along a different road than the one we entered on, stopping at every "major" town's general store in search of a fan. We finally found one at Adelaide River - best $35 I've ever spent! We got in to Litchfield at 5pm and decided we had some time to go to some of the nearby attractions before setting up camp. First stop was Florence Falls - a beautiful waterfall with a rain forest and a plunge pool open for swimming. As a bonus, the horrible flies in Kakadu haven't found their way to Litchfield so we can enjoy out hike, and there's a lot less driving here. We went for a nice swim at the bottom of the falls but had to pull a few leeches off Craig when we got out. On the way back to the car we saw our first wallaby (kangaroo family)!
Next we stopped at Buley Rockhole to hike around another waterfall - also gorgeous. On the way back to the campsite we stopped at the Magnetic Termite Mounds to look at the huge cathedral and magnetic termite mounds. They are called magnetic because they build thin mounds along the north-south axis to allow them to keep a stable temperature throughout the day. You see hundreds of termite mounds in the fields and forests along the side of the highway, many over a meter tall. One of the mounds here was around 6 meters tall - wow!
We spent the night at the Banyan Tree Caravan Park. When we got there the site was pitch black - there were no site lights around or in the washroom or along the campsite road. We struggled to set up in the dark and were startled to find a long piece of grass with a family of sleeping wasps right by our door. The women's washroom was guarded by a large tree frog which seemed unphased by Craig's valiant attempt to nudge it with his foot, but we were finally able to clear a path. It didn't seem that the washroom had been cleaned in quite a while as there were hundreds of spiders with well established homes included all the door frames and toilet bowls. Since we were producing the only light we were attacked by swarms of moths while preparing dinner. Since we were using headlamps which lit our pots, we had many suicides, so we had to start wearing the headlamps to the side and not shine directly on the food.
We plugged in our new fan for the first time and thankfully it worked like a charm - the breeze makes a huge difference!