It doesn’t quite feel right camping in a city, so it was nice to hit the road and head to Litchfield National Park.
There are many bush fires around this time of year across the Top End, right through to the Kimberley. It’s a natural phenomenon, and regenerates the bush. You can often see the smoke in the distance, and it contributes to some beautiful sunsets. Today we saw a fire right next to us on the road entering Litchfield NP. But we also saw the Whistling Kites gathered en masse ready to feast on the wildlife scurrying out of the fire’s path. It was lunch time for them! Quite a spectacle.

We stopped to see the unique “magnetic” termite mounds that are only found here in the Northern Territory.
These termites, although blind, build their mounds aligned north-south, so that they always have one side in the shade. These are only found here, across these black soil plains. It’s a big contrast to the other mounds we have been seeing since somewhere near Tennant Creek that are built by Cathedral Termites.

They have just got bigger and bigger since then!