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Creek, with its own swimming hole, where camping involves bushwalking to a series of
sublime, isolated riverside sites.
Litchfield Safari Camp
CAMPGROUND $
OFFLINE MAP
( 08-8978 2185;
www.litchfieldsafaricamp.com.au
;
Litchfield Park Rd; unpowered/powered sites
$30/35, dm $30, d safari tents $130, extra person $10; )
Shady grassed sites make this a
good alternative to Litchfield's bush camping sites, especially if you want power. The sa-
fari tents are great value as they comfortably sleep up to four folks. There's also a ram-
shackle camp kitchen, a kiosk and a pint-sized pool.
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Litchfield Cafe
CAFE $$$
OFFLINE MAP
(
www.litchfieldcafe.com.au
;
Litchfield Park Rd; mains $16-35; breakfast, lunch & dinner Apr-Sep,
lunch only Oct-Mar)
Filo parcels (try the chicken, mango and macadamia) make for a super
lunch at this superb licensed cafe, or you could go for a meal of grilled local barra or roo
fillet, topped-off with a good coffee and some wicked mango cheesecake.
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Adelaide River to Katherine
Adelaide River
POP 238
Blink and you'll miss this tiny highway town, 111km south of Darwin, which was once
an important point on the Overland Telegraph Line and supply depot during WWII. The
Adelaide River War Cemetery
(Memorial Tce)
is an important legacy: a sea of brass
plaques commemorating those killed in the 1942−43 air raids on northern Australia.
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Sleeping & Eating
Adelaide River Inn
PUB $
( 08-8976 7047;
www.adelaideriverinn.com.au
; 106 Stuart Hwy; unpowered/powered sites $18/
25, budget/motel/cabin d $85/110/140; )
An affable little pub (mains $9 to $32, open
breakfast, lunch and dinner) hiding behind the BP petrol station. On the corner of the bar
stands Charlie the water buffalo, who lived here in relative obscurity until shooting to
