19^th of September

Well, we woke up around seven-ish and had our brekkie.  Then we headed for our walk and swim to the Tjaynera Falls.  This is a 2.6km return walk and each way takes about half an hour.  Once we arrived at the fall we went for a welcome swim.  I swam all the way up to the fall as usual!    We were the only ones this morning to enjoy the swim!!  The Tjaynera Falls is a very pretty cascading waterfall that has a large pool below it.  It was refreshing to go for the swim as every day here it gets up to 35 – 40 degrees fairly quickly!.  After swimming for half an hours, we headed back to camp and packed all our stuff.  Once done I rigged up a sled from a piece of wood and placed a heavy rock on it.  I then used that as a load to spool in the rope onto the winch.  Once done, we were off again!

After only a few kilometers drive, we came off the gravel track and joined the main bitumen road in the park.  We then went straight to the main attraction in Litchfield, Wangi Falls!.  A very pretty waterfall, with a large pool below it, whereby lots of people were swimming in!  

We went to the lookout and also did the 1.8km walk around and above the falls.  We didn’t go for the swim amongst the crowd, but decided to have an ice-cream instead!.  It was a pretty hot day, only around 40 degrees!! 

From there we drove to the next fall, called Tolmer Falls.  There is a short walk to a lookout above the fall, but no swimming allowed.  No one is allowed to go down to the pool below the fall.  The fall has carved out a cave in the cliff that houses some rare and endangered bat species.  Thus it’s a no go zone.

From there we went to Buley Rockhole campsite and camped.  We had gone earlier to the 4Wd campsite at the Florence falls, but all the signs there prohibited any swimming in the Florcence Creek.  

From the Buley campsite there is a very a short walk to the Buley Rockholes.  These are small pools in the Florence river further up-stream from the falls, whereby one is allowed to swim and cool off.  It’s a great spot, a bit popular as there were several other people there.  However, given how hot it was, we needed to cool off, so in we went.  I think we spend almost two hours there!!  We then went back to camp to settle in for the night.  Initially we thought that we would be alone in the campsite, but after dark, three other cars turned up.  One of them camped in the spot next to us.  It had three young people, two boys and a girl.  We thought we would have an early night and go to sleep, but these three just kept drinking and talking on and on well past midnight, especially the girl!.  We now know her life’s history whether we wanted to or not!!  Even one of the boys said to her "Shut the f### up!” at times.  So, we didn’t get much sleep that night.

One night camping at Sandy Creek (Tjaynera Falls)

Sandy Creek.

Tjaynera Falls.

Me swimming up to the Tjaynera Falls.

The plunge pool is quite bit at Tjaynera falls.

Pretty scenic palms on the way back from Tjaynera Falls.

Wangi Falls.

Wangi Falls.

View from the walk above Wangi falls.

A small creek near Wangi Falls.

Tolmer Falls.

Tolmer Falls.

The cave with the protected bat species at Tolmer Falls.

Buley Rockholes.

Sibba swimming in the Buley rockholes.

Buley Rockholes.

Buley Rockholes.