After picking up the car and buying some groceries we drove about 100 km south to the campground outside Batchelor and near Litchfield, where we had booked two cabins for the night. We checked in and left our luggage there - including 4 mega-huge T-bone steaks that Edlef had insisted on purchasing (he had been fantasising about oversized T-bone steaks ever since he decided to join us in Oz).

Litchfield National Park is much smaller (and thereby easier to take in) and seems less crowded then Kakadu. Furthermore there is no entry fee (Kakadu is $16.50 per person). When asked, many Australians are undecided whether Litchfield or Kakadu is their preferred park. Considering the short time we had available and the fact that we had seen parts of Kakadu the choice was easy.

Driving through the park, most of what you see is flat forested land with patches of huge termite mounds. Then, all of a sudden you reach waterfalls and beautiful pools with crystal clear fresh water.

As the day was half over by the time we got inside park and since we also had the following day in the park, we took it easy and just relaxed. We parked at Buley Rockholes and hiked for a couple of kilometers through grassland to Florence Falls, which is a beautiful pool surrounded by tall cliffs where the water runs over. After swimming here, we wandered back the same track we came and spent the last light hours of the day at Buley Rockholes - a bunch of pools that are connected by small rapids and waterfalls.

Back at the campground we actually managed to eat all the T-bone steaks (with Edlef's help of course - he is still smiling).