Wagait Beach

We made a days outing to visit Wagait Beach for lunch, a 67 km drive from the Stuart Hwy where you reach the Charles Point Road. To the east it's a short drive to Mandorah and a view across the bay to Darwin CBD. A ferry crosses at this point daily taking commuters to work and back, plus tourists.  The warf is also a good fishing spot and on our visit there would have been 6 or 8 people fishing.

We had a walk out onto the jetty then returned and drove back a short distance to Wagait Beach. Even though we had been here previously we drove through the community and found a beach access to check out. I was able to get the drone out and take some photos which I hadn't been able to do previously.

Wagiat Beach, houses along the beach front.
Just see Darwin in the background across the harbour.

Looking east towards Charles Point along Wagait Beach

From Wagait Beach we headed back to the Charles Point Rd and a further 5 km towards Charles Point to visit the remains of the B24J Liberator Bomber, "Milady" which is a short distance on a dirt track from the road. What actually happened on 17/1/1945 to the US Army Air Force 30th Bombardment Group's B-24J-15-CO Liberator bomber aircraft nicknamed Milady will never be known for certain.  The four-engine bomber with a crew of 6 left the Darwin RAAF base for training bombing mission at Quail Island and it was Lt Bobby Neal's first mission in this aircraft as pilot-in-command. Some account talks of a fire on board before the crash, although there are no reports of a distress call or the bomber having been sighted on fire by the many military personnel based on the Cox Peninsula before it crashed.

Just off the Charles Point Rd, Cox Peninsular are the remains of the
 B24J Liberator Bomber, "Milady"

A wing section of the Wreck of B24J Liberator Bomber, "Milady"

After visiting the plane wreck we got back onto the Charles Point road and travelled a further few kilometers to power pole 53 (directions given to me from a local when we lived in Darwin) and took this track through the bush until it came out onto the beach.  From here we followed the beach further west past numerous camp spots until we found a shady spot to ourselves over looking the bay for lunch.

From our lunch spot looking west towards Wagait Beach

Our view for lunch

A nice shady spot for lunch

Just enjoying the view