Made an early start today and were on the road by about 8.30 a.m. and still not sure that we are doing the right thing by going to Alice and leaving this beautifully warm climate. Decide that we will let the car decide in which direction we shall travel. We were headed for Katherine to do a quick restock of food and buy some yummy pies for lunch. Car decides that Alice Springs is the go, so we begin the 110 km before push down south along the Stuart highway to Alice Springs. We have decided to try and make Daly Waters and the iconic pub and caravan park that is situated there. All the kids travelled well and we swallowed 470 k’s for the day.
We managed to make the pub by about 5.00 pm and secured a camping site just in time to set up before the sun set. Decided that dinner at the pub was the order of the day. The food was good and hearty with big servings and the beer was cold.
Daly Waters attracts all types of travellers from backpackers to the ubiquitous grey nomads, from all over Australia and the world and we could hear many different accents as we gathered around the bar for drink.
Entertainment was also provided and this kept us entertained for a few hours until it was time to fall into bed and refresh ourselves for the following day’s travel!
13th July Daly Waters to Devils Marbles.
Once again on the road by 9.00a.m.after a sleep interrupted by the partying of a group of backpackers from Ireland, Germany and Denmark.?!?!?!?
Heading for the Devil’s Marbles today, a distance of 507 kms. Once again the troops all travelled well and were keep fed and happy whilst in transit, by Andy, who always manages to supply just enough food to keep everybody satisfied. This is not an easy thing to do when you have 6 hungry mouths to feed and fairly sizeable distances to cover. We passed through a number of towns including Elliot (look it up), where we stopped for lunch and Tennant Creek. Didn’t stop here as we were keen to push as far south as possible in order to give ourselves the best chance possible to reach Alice Springs the next day at a reasonable time. Finally pulled in to the Devil’s Marbles are quite spectacular as you can see from the photos.
14th July Devil’s Marbles to Alice Springs
Woke to a clear but somewhat more crisp morning than we had been accustomed to. Obviously heading south and gaining height above sea level as we headed inland was making a noticeable difference to the overall temp. Decided to scale the largest of the marbles and watch the sunrise. As you can see the photos show quite a remarkable landscape. Liv and Rube climbed down ahead of us and on the way down copped an earful from a “grey nomad” lady who wasn’t happy with us “spoiling” her photo opportunity for a Devil’s Marbles sunrise by being on top of the rocks in her view!!!!
How inconsiderate of us!!!! Sometimes we are just grateful that the “nomads” generally don’t have “off road” vans because that means that we can get away from them on the rough stuff from time to time.
Drove out from the Marbles and proceeded down the Stuart Highway, stopping off at Wycliffe Well Roadhouse, the UFO capital of Australia for some petrol and then gunned it on the highway. Stopped for lunch at Tea Tree a mainly Aboriginal community and ate that in the park. Back in the M. Pajero for a leisurely cruise through Aileron and on to Alice, where we booked ourselves into the MacDonnell Ranges Caravan Park for 4 nights.
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