Blogs from Daly Waters, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania

DANES BIRTHDAY -Travel Tennant Creek(TC) to Daly Waters Lounge(????Pub)(DWL) (4473 km to 4864 km). Refuse to call it a Pub after being told to be quiet at least twice by retired brigade whilst sitting at a table catching up with camping neighbours from Port Douglas 1994. Only 4 beers and I would be quieter than 70 % of people I know, so don t go there expecting the pub atmosphere(I've been to a lot of pubs all over OZ in my time.) but food is good and lots of stuff on walls,roof etc. Dane had a good day and dinner even with fair bit of driving. CADES DIARY It was my brothers 5th Birthday and he got a Razor Pro Scooter, Hot Wheels watch and a DSi. For dinner we went to the Daly Waters Pub ... read more

Winton was the next stop on our journey. We met a lovely couple also from Brissy heading in the same direction so decided to convoy with them for a few days. Kim a chef was great as he cooked us some lovely meals whilst we were travelling with them. Including a Pork Roast with all the trimmings. Thanks Kim! We decided to stay at the Matilda Caravan park in Winton as it come highly recommended. One of the highlights of our time in Winton was the free entertainment at the caravan park each night. Susie and Mel 2 Aussie bush poets. They were a great laugh and very talented and entertaining. Winton is a nice country town with 4 pubs for its small pupulation of only 900. The Bledisloe Cup was on in Auckland whilst we ... read more

Hello to you all again and isn’t time going by quickly. It’s the start of our third week on the road and there is so much to do and see. Unfortunately we didn’t get to Kings Canyon and a few other places recommended to us by other travellers but this just means that we will need to come back sometime in the future ( keep your long service leave accruing babe). Well in Alice Springs we’ve had a lovely time. The weather has been great during the day with tops of approx 20 degrees, beautiful sunshine and a limited amount of clouds with a dress code of tees and short pants, but the nights are BLOODY COLD!!!!!!!. Ski gear would be more appropriate at night, but I did listen to The GMan when packing (Na ya ... read more

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Day 84 Katherine to Daly Waters (Sat 25th Sept) Up this morning in time to get some pics of the pre-dawn sky which was a beautiful red colour. Heather and I had to be ready to leave at 0645 as we were going for a helicopter flight over the Katherine Gorge. Our pilot was Scott, and he took us up in a little tiny yellow helicopter that looked like a bubble. He explained that while people said there were 13 gorges, there was really just one, but the low water levels meant it was divided into 13 separate pools of water. The flight was about 20 minutes long and well worth it, we even saw some water buffalo and some kayaks on the water. The others came by in the coach to pick us up at ... read more

Day two of our trip up to Darwin did, as our guides had warned, contain a lot of time sitting in the bus watching the landscape slowly change from dry scrub into green tropical vegetation. Our first stop came mid morning when we arrived at Newcastle Waters, a huge but now deserted cattle station that used to be an important meeting point for drovers crossing the outback during the early settlement days. In the 1800 and early 1900s, farmers in Australia employed cattle drovers to take animals over vast distances to sell at market, deliver them to new owners or simply find better sources of food and water during droughts. These drovers would move hundreds, sometimes thousands of cows or sheep huge distances and Newcastle Waters, being fairly central, happened to be a convenient place for ... read more