Since Reynolds River track was closed we took the long way round Litchfield National Park. Through Adelaide River, filled with fuel and bought a couple of essentials, then through Batchelor.

Accessible from Darwin on very good roads for day trippers and tours to supplement the campers.

About 700m to the falls then a walk anticlockwise around the top to take the 134 steps down to campsite level.

It started in bottom right and gradually moved across towards top left.

it didn't quite amount to "full".

There's a 39km loop track round the middle of the park, the Tabletop Range.

From the campsite a couple of km to the junction with the track. We intended to walk until we thought it time to turn round.

With afternoon temperatures above 30 centigrade we set off before dawn.

With the light of the moon ..... of course.

The plateau has some sandstone outcrops and lots of seasonal burning.

We used to know ......

We think a cuckoo shrike ......

Revert to the age old practice of one person stays with a marker until the other person finds the next marker.

And so on.

This is "last year's burn" with new grass from the rains. We think.

Another escarpment in the background that presumably led to another plateau.

We skirted round.

We had crossed one creek (which took a bit of searching for our path on the way back).

We nearly reached the creek that runs into Buley Rockhole and thence to Florence Falls.

If I hadn't lost the tracker (in early days of this trip) I'd have known.

We had radio contact with Peter and Margaret who would meet us at the Rockhole. We were within 700m, the track about 5km.

Litchfield National Park is mostly about waterfalls, within easy reach of Darwin on good roads.