Litchfield National Park

Yesterday I went to Litchfield National Park. On the way everything was red, brown, and orange. We went to Lichfield National park because we wanted to see the giant magnetic termite mounds and swim underneath the water falls; Wangi Falls and Florence Falls.

There are two kinds of termites. They are called Nasutitermites triodinae which make cathedral shaped mounds and Amitermes mederidionalis which makes magnetic mounds where the flat side of the mound faces north and south and the point faces east to west so the mound does not overheat. The Cathedral mounds are built on top of dry soil so that is why the mounds from those termites are red and the Magnetic mounds are built on seasonally flooded black soil so the mounds are gray. Some of the mounds can get up to 5 meters high (thats 15 feet high!).The mounds group around dead trees until there is no tree left then the termites move onto a new tree.

After the termite mounds we went to Wangi falls. Wangi falls is a beautiful water fall. There was two water falls at the site and a giant swimming hole. We also saw a lot of fruit bats. We had lunch there and then we drove to Florence falls. We also swam at Florence falls.

A poem I wrote inspired by the song "From Little Things Big Things Grow".

I am not one big thing 

I am many little things

Woven together 

Wangi Falls

Cathedral termite mounds

Us

Magnetic termite mound