GO CHASING WATERFALLS

Do you love the great outdoors? See yourself kicking around the beautiful, rugged landscapes of the NT, your feet in the red sand and cooling off in tropical waterfalls? Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife want to hear from you!

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THEY’RE ON THE hunt for folks to join their volunteer campground host program. Established in 2019, the program invites volunteers on board to help visitors navigate their time in Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife managed parks and reserves.

Campground hosts support park rangers by allowing them to focus on other park priorities, improving conservation and land management outcomes for the park. Placements are generally about three-weeks, but shorter, fortnight placements can be negotiated in Litchfield National Park and Karlu Karlu/Devils Marbles Conservation Reserve. Nice.

There’s also the opportunity to help out in Litchfield National Park, Elsey National Park, Judbarra/Gregory National Park, Keep River National Park, Finke Gorge National Park, and Trephina Gorge Nature Park. Again, very nice.

If you’re someone that likes to meet people, has a positive attitude and friendly demeanour, and takes pride in the Territory, this could be for you. You need to hold a current first-aid qualification and pass a National Police Check, but these costs can be reimbursed once you’ve completed your first placement.

You’ll also need to provide your own accommodation ¬– be that a tent, camper trailer, campervan or caravan – and if you’re an off-gridder, that’s even better, given power and water supplies can sometimes be limited.

In return for four hours a day, six days a week, you’ll get free camping in some of the NT’s most beautiful locations, free entry to Territory Wildlife Park and Alice Springs Desert Park, and the chance to explore the parks and reserves in your own time. Not bad, eh?

If this sounds like an experience you might get a kick out of, go ahead and throw your name in the Akubra!

INFO dth.nt.gov.au