What a cool place! Berry Springs is not far out of Darwin (47km’s), and is well worth a visit. After getting the motorhome fixed (as mentioned here), we stopped in at Berry Springs on the way to Litchfield National Park (Thurs 21/8). However we liked the place, and it was late, so we ended up staying the night at a nearby caravan park so we could go back again in the morning!

They are lovely spring pools, not that dissimilar to Bitter Springs at Mataranka. Larger though, with two main pools and the upper area where the waterfall is. They aren’t advertised as heated as Rainbow Springs and Bitter Springs are, but I think the water was warmed a little compared to a typical creek. This is a popular spot, and has a reasonably large picnic area in the park.

Main Pool, Berry Springs Darwin

We all had a good time swimming, and made good use of that snorkeling equipment we bought in Darwin (didn’t take long!). The fish life in the water was awesome! I took some underwater video with my phone (Friday morning) of some of the fish we saw.

There was one type of fish we’d seen the evening before that I wanted to video, but couldn’t find them again Friday morning… They were the shape and size of a dinner plate (standing on edge as in dishwasher), dark purple in colour, with some yellow ring markings on them! May be a bit hard to tell the size of these from the vid, but the long narrow pointy ones were around 35cm long. Some, such as the larger silver ones, were harder to get close to and capture.

Aside from looking at fish, and general swimming around, Jonathan and Daniel had a great time jumping into the water from the rope swing.

Rope swing…

I’ve been out the habit of carrying the camera around since arriving in Darwin, so didn’t take many photos, but a very nice place to visit!