6th July, 2014

Another beautiful morning, this time out at Nitilmuk National Park. There is heaps of wildlife up here hanging around the campsite Eagles, Kites, Lorikeets, Cuckoo's, Bee Eaters, Kookaburras, Bats and Agile Wallabies who like to pay a visit or two.

After enjoying bacon and eggs for breakfast and attending to a few housekeeping items we headed off to do one of the short walks that leave from the visitor centre. We did the Windolf walk which is a 8.4 k - 3.5 hr return walk out to Pat's Lookout and the Southern Rockhole. The walk starts pretty easily and is followed by a moderate climb up to the top of the cliffs and then it basically levels out until you get to the lookout. 

This is the view of the 1st gorge from the lookout.

Once we had taken a few snaps and spoken to the ranger we continued on down to Southern Rockhole which involves a bit of rock hopping and a couple of steps but overall nothing to difficult.

The water is a stagnant at the moment but there was still fish swimming around in it and the photos oft in the wet make it look pretty special. If you are up here aft a good wet season or early aft the wet you can swim here.

A short walk through a butterfly filled gorge led us out to a sandy beach on the gorge. Trent was a bit concerned about the freshwater crocs that inhabit the area but we all stripped off and had a swim.

Loving this panorama function on the iPhone but trying to take photos with the Nikon, GoPro and iPhone is pretty tough. Ah the things that concern us on holidays.

It took a bit of convincing to get Alyssa in as well, she was worried about walking back all wet, at least that's what she told us - image is everything.

We then headed back to the visitor centre and were back basically spot on the 3.5 hrs which wasn't bad after our swim. Then we had lunch and went for a swim in the resort style pool that this National Park offers before getting a ice cream and checking out the bats hanging in the trees.

Just before dinner Trent and I went down to the swimming jetty to watch the bats take flight. It was amazing and something not to be missed if you are here. The bats all leave their trees and form a whirlpool of sorts above the water, swooping down to take a drink, while trying to avoid being snapped up by the waiting freshwater crocs and then they all fly away - just awesome to watch, although I did get shat on once.