Beat the Crowds, July 22, 2013

We arrived at Wangi Falls by about 9.30am. These falls are Litchfield’s most popular attraction, so it was good to beat the crowds. The falls run all year round, and the pool is huge!
Wangi Falls Litchfield NP
You can see the boys swimming just below the falls in the photo above. And of course they had the obligatory shower:
Wangi Falls Litchfield NP
And here’s one for mum – a photo with me in it!!
Wangi Falls Litchfield NP
There’s a flash café serving coffee that’s not flash (4/10 again) and overpriced food. So we moved on.
We wanted to take a 4WD road (Reynolds Road) that heads south and exits Litchfield NP taking you down on the Daly River Road to save us backtracking to the Stuart Highway, but the road was closed, so backtrack it was.
John (famed for finding a short cut, albeit one that takes longer) did take us on an alternate route from the lovely town of Batchelor (formerly part of the Jungle Rum Uranium mining lease) to the town of Adelaide River.
Here, we visited the Adelaide River War Cemetery, the largest was cemetery in Australia. It has the graves of over 400 people who lost their lives during the bombing of the early 40s.
Adelaide River War Cemetery