Made our way out of Douglas Springs to Adelaide River and visited the War Cemetery. This was a beautiful space dedicated to those military personnel and civilians who lost their lives in the air raids on Darwin during W.W.2.
Pushed on to Litchfield N.P., which is about 130 k’s south of Darwin, to continue our quest to find the best swimming water hole in Australia. Due to its proximity to Darwin, it was quite busy at the park and we checked a few places to stay but these were full. Decided to stay at Wangi Falls, arriving there at about 5.30 pm. Managed to snare one of the last campsites in the campground sharing a large site with a couple from the Latrobe Valley. Fairly basic camping facilities were available with toilets and cold showers, but surprisingly no lights or power in the amenities block.
Wangi Falls has a lovely swimming area, but unfortunately this was closed when we were there because of the suspected presence of “salties”. The boardwalk and walking tracks were also closed for the same reason.
Next day we had a great day at Buley Rockholes and Florence Falls. We all spent a couple of hours swimming At Buley in these cascading waterholes in the most crystal clear water that I have seen. The girls all decided that this was the best swimming that they had been to so far. Florence Falls was also great, with 2 waterfalls plunging off a 20 m or so cliff. The place was very popular and pretty well full of travellers such as us as well as tour groups etc. Of course there were the standard crazy German “backpackers” who jumped off the top of the falls thus risking death or severe spinal injuries. Thankfully they were ok, but only in body, not mind!!!
We spent 2 nights in Litchfield because by this time we were pretty keen to get to Darwin and spend some time checking it out.
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