toilets cost a tiny $3.30 per adult (half-
price for kids), and while generators are
permitted, you’ll need to bring drinking
water and stockpile your rubbish until
your return to civilisation.BUTTERFLY FALLS
You only have to travel 25km north of
the Southern Lost City to reach another
unmissable camping destination
at Butterfly Falls. This shady oasis
takes its name from the thousands of
common crow butterflies that rise in
spectacular, fluttering clouds from the
amphitheatre’s cool, stone walls when
disturbed. We watch them, floating
beneath the trickling waterfall, soaking
up Limmen’s only croc-free swimming
opportunity as waterbirds wade
amongst purple water lilies and azure
kingfishers flit overhead, feeding on the
wing.
Around our shady campsite, sulphur-
crested cockatoos feed on blooming,
bright orange fern-leaf grevilleas,
bending branches and filling the airwith a delicious honey-scented nectar.
On our most recent mid-winter visit,
we shared this spacious camp with just
two other rigs, even though it could
easily accommodate a crowd.
The waterhole is deep enough for a
proper swim and within easy reach of
the campground, which means you can
wander down again and again before
finally drying off and stoking up a
campfire. Like every camp in Limmen
National Park, this one provides
wheelchair-accessible toilets, fire pits
and picnic tables, all for the low, low
price of just $3.30 a head.TOWNS RIVER CAMPING
Pushing north, Towns River offers
the most idyllic camping in the park,
perched on the highset limestone edge
of this clear, dark river. Like the Roper
River, Towns River conjures up the
kinds of legendary catches that lure
barramundi aficionados so far down
Limmen’s corrugated tracks, and it’s
popular with caravanners for the hardLimmen National Park, NT“Around our shady
campsite, sulphur-
crested cockatoos
feed on blooming,
bright orange fern-
leaf grevilleas,
bending branches
and filling the air
with a delicious
honey-scented
nectar”
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