Limmen NP

You might be getting the picture that our experience of sunlight has been intermittent for the last couple of months. On our second day in the NT when it was yet again a uniformly grey day, it was starting to really get us down. All this amazing country in the Limmen National Park that we were driving through just looked drab and dull.

So when the sun came out the following day it was amazing – we were rediscovering sunshine! Marvelling at how the light changes throughout the day, how it makes shadows and how it can burn! We are SO happy to have sunlight back.


And what a day to have the sun come back! We drove 30km in on a very rough track to the Western Lost City, part of a chain of ‘Lost City’ formations, which are weathered sandstone cliffs. What remains is the most amazing shapes that look sometimes like giant termite mounds, and other times like some city out of Star Wars. And we saw so many faces in the shapes – check it out! All very fabulolus.



We spent a few days in the Limmen NP, it was beautiful isolated country. Spent a couple of nights at the Limmen Bight River Fishing Camp – which was really just bush camping by the river with a bit of drinking water available.


And we got the boat into the water in search of fish. But everyone camped there had tales of woe when it came to fishing – from Graham and Judy who’ve been coming there for 12 years and were very friendly and full of good tips for us, to the bunch of blokes who’d driven 3500km in 2 days from Wagga Wagga for a 3 week fishing holiday. Nobody, it seemed, was catching much at all. Blame the unseasonal weather and the very cold water?

We had a great time exploring the river in the tinnie anyway and Tim caught a few fish worth keeping – including this big queenfish that will give us plenty of meals. Looked out for the big crocodiles that apparently live in the river – but still haven’t laid eyes on a big one as yet!