22nd June.
The Adelaide River trotting club had a nice camping ground with no power, but water on tap for the princely sum of $12.00 per night. That sounded like us so we booked in and used this as a base for going into the Litchfield National park and other local attractions.
Adelaide River was a big Army/ Air force base during the Second World War as it was far enough behind the lines to be safe from attack by the Japanese hitting Darwin.

 Getting cosy with Di and Warwick,annex to annex. There was plenty of room for this.

 Looking out over the racecourse. In the wet season this gets flooded and wild water Buffalo graze there. That fence doesn't look strong enough to keep them out does it!

From here we looked around the local area and came across a War cemetery with people killed in Darwin during the bombing. Its kept by the government and is a very quiet and spiritual place.

                                                              The entrance gate.

                                                           The memorial with all the names.

                                     A sea of green in a brown and Dusty landscape.

                                                              A very peaceful place.

                          Another spiritual place was the Bar/ restaraunt  at the Jockey club.

All open air and a good range of cheap meals. Prawn cutlets $1.00 each and the roast was $10.00.
                     All very rural and great eating as the Sun sets over the Racecourse and not far to              stagger back to the Van if you have eaten or drunk too much!.

23rd June
From here we travelled in to the Litchfield National park,which we were looking forward to as we had heard so much about it. The drive in was 92kms but it was just as well we stayed at Adelaide river as the Caravan park was full in there and wasn't very nice.

 The first attraction is the Termite mounds. These as you can see are quite large. There are quite a few scattered around the place, but you got the better photo with this one. Pity about the geriatric old couple standing in the way!

These are the magnetic ones.So called because they face magnetic North/South. They are quite thin compared with the other ones and are built this way to control the temp inside the mound.
Once inside the Park there are a lot of waterfalls to visit so I will leave that until next post.
Cheers for now.
Dave and Helen