Katherine Gorge - Tennant Creek (Outback trip)

Day 5

Hey, that day starts a bit later: getting up at 6 am!

...and offers a morning bath in Mataranka's crystal clear thermal pools.


Welcome to Daly Waters, a small town in the Northern Territory about 620 km south of Darwin and 3 km west of the Stuart Highway.
The "town" (in Germany a place of that size wouldn't even get the title of a "village") is little more than a pub with 2 metal shacks, a water and gas tank and a fake traffic light in the middle of the "town".


...with some signs for sale...






...and inside the pub with a modley collection of simply EVERYTHING what people leave on purpose as souvenirs: that is money...




...more money, hats/caps...




...thongs...


...number plates...


...all kinds of clothes (shirts, socks, underwear etc.), batches, photographs, expired IDs (licences, student cards, bank cards, id cards) and much more.

So when you will pass there maybe one day have a look for a filled out Sudoku page with my picture :-)

The "amazing" Stuart Tree; to make it worth a picture we all posed in a different way for each camera taking a photo:


In Dunmarra, 628 km away from Darwin and 860 km ahead of our later destination Alice Springs) we hold again some snakes and a Blue-Tongue Lizard.








Collecting wood for the eveing campfire close to Tennant Creek.


And while carrying all those braches and lifting them up onto the hanger I meet this nice mate here: a Huntsman! *Uargh*




This night I decided to sleep outside in a so called "swag". I mentioned a swag already in the post about the sailing around the Whitsunday Islands. A swag is a kind of sleeping bag, impermeable with a foam rubber mattress that can be rolled up.

As it was so damn cold that night and I was already well packed into my swag I didn't want to get up anymore to get my camera to take a picture. So unfortunately the following 2 pics are not mine but just for giving you an impression.