Blogs from Daly Waters, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania - page 4

Current Mood: Hot springs with Crocodiles...... EEEEEEEEEErrry! Well as ever I came to town for a great break but had to return to the island for yet another 9 days of work saying my final good byes to Shell as she had plans to leave for the east coast. The excitement of next break was for many reasons….. Bass in the grass came to town which was to be a Scream, Bretta had finally landed a gig on the island working for the same department as me and I had been invited on a Camping trip that would hit two locations. All to be explained in full……… as I always do hehehe x So out on the island I was running the drill of digging rock for holes that would be used in Dunnart trapping doing ... read more

There was a noticable air of tension in the camp this morning as we all breakfasted in the chill, but the mood thawed during the first few kms thanks to The Rizla Game, which each Greg joined in, laughing and shouting - to our relief. It was a long days drive. My bum ached continually and the old, cramped bus was made worse when I offered one of my 2 seats to Suze, who'd moved from the front seat to escape Greg's naff come-ons. We had a fantastic sunset stop off at Devils Marbles - a huge playground of rocks for adults - climbing and clambering over the fantastic landscape. Things were smoothing themselves out, or so we thought, as we settled down to that night's camp for a game of cards and a few beers. ... read more

After checking out of the hostel early this morning we began the 695km journey south from Katherine to Tenant Creek, and arduous, boring and somewhat tedious journey through scenery of nothingness broken only by a short pit stop at the "Historic Pub" in Daly Waters. Quite why the pub is historic is anyone's guess but many travellers who have stopped here before us have left small momentos of the trip stappled, superglued and blutacked to the walls and every available space in the pub, including, banknotes, bra's, boxer shorts, flags, beer mats, license plates and anything else that they deemed of inconsequential personal value. With us being tight and less than interested in stapling legal tender or our boxer shorts to the bar we sat for a cold drink before taking photos and continuing the journey ... read more

Where salt water crocodiles start living well furthest point south they are! So when crossing a river to get there at night and then realising that the next day we were a little perturbed to say the least. The place is tiny and yes in rainy season a river crosses road.... the pub is covered in memorable items like notes from around the world and photo ID of people that have visited here. We spent a few minutes looking around outside before entering Daly Waters to turn out car lights and wonder around in dark looking at stars. If I say that the sky in Britain will feel like its falling down on me when get home I won't be lying. With no buildings the sky here covers the whole hemisphere and is covered with more ... read more