Darwin, Australia pt. 3

dead termite mounds

Termite mound

this thing was huge!

We ventured out of the city several times to experience the 'Outback' in one of the national parks. There were several national parks around Darwin but we were only able to visit one, Lichfield National Park. The pictures above are termite mounds....I didn't see any termites on them, they must have been inside.

At Lichfield there were several waterfalls, some we could swim at and others we couldn't, this one here was swimmable. It was beautiful, there were two roaring falls going off into one pool. This was my first time in YEARS to swim in freshwater, it felt kind of weird cause I am SO used to my eyes burning and my sinuses emptying out. Anyways, the water was very cool and because of the falls it was difficult to swim to the falls themselves, but man was it fun.

Zach giving us the swan dive....haha, kidding.

Then we made our way to some rock 'step' pools, this was nice because there were several pools connected to each other each with different depths, this one here was rather deep. As you see we were able to jump off the edges which were relatively high.

Green went as far as my eyes could see

yeah!! off roaring in our RENTAL car.....hahaha

I saw these things all the time, the green butt ants! 

We decided to take our rental car out on the dirt roads so we could shave a whole hour and a half off of our travel back to the hostel for dinner. We were going about 40 km and still swerving around in the loose dirt, hahaha praise the Lord we didn't get stuck anywhere.