152 - Renner Springs to Daly Waters

No more excuses! I am a slacko in adding new posts, however here we go again.

We are doing a lot of nothing here in Darwin. We are camped at a retreat near Darwin River Dam, more Berry Springs actually. We have found out we are about 80kms out of Darwin. So a round trip does become heavy on the wallet for fuel. So we will get the touristy things out of the way in Darwin, then concentrate on attractions in our neck of the woods.

So lets get back track!

Our trip from Three Ways Roadhouse to the Daley Waters Pub, was like all the drives we have done....long, boring and hot! But however, we are grinding away and looking at all the destination signs for Darwin, slowing going down in kms yet to travel. Beats the 3000 odd we saw when we left Bribie Island. Geeeeeezus know wonder we are joining the poor house.

The  stop at Renner Springs was a fuel and food stop. Nothing here apart from a road house

The bar at Renner Springs Road House

  

The dining area

The clientele

We felt that we must push on to Daly Waters Pub. Now we have heard a million good things about this icon, so away we go. Yep you guessed it another long, boring and hot trek to this famous icon.

We arrived at Daly Waters Pub, and we were not disappointed. What a great joint. We were directed into our site for the night or two by Brian who is he caretaker for the caravan park. It is really "Rafferty rules" here. You get jambed in every where, but that's half the fun.

Power not an issue, water well you have to fill a bucket then pump it into your tanks. Not an issue. So of course we did all the normal things and got the van set up for a couple of days. We stayed hitched up however.

So off to explore the site have a beer or three and take some photos. Yep we weren't disappointed here. We met a million people and did the show on the first night. The entertainment wasn't the usual "chook man" however we were entertained by "Chilli", a comedian, come story teller, poet and singer. For an hour and a half we had a good time at the show. Of course we had the Barra and Beef meal, which was sufficient, although in my opinion a little expensive. But that's me.....hate paying out for anything....especially when the bank account is showing lots of out goings and very little incoming.  A' well I'll get over it one day.

Most people will only stay for a night. We opted for two, as I need a break from behind the wheel.

On the third day we packed up and headed further north towards Darwin.

The little craft shop and servo at Daly Waters, opposite the pub

Set of traffic lights always on red outside the pub 

The outside of the Daly Waters Pub

The bride having a dip in the pool

The Rafferty rules CP at the pub

This is the entertainment / show and eating area of the pub.

This is the crew we paled up with at Three Ways.

Lots of fun memorabilia here

Now what size are you madam???????

One of the evening cooks

Blimey...I thought my spelling was bad!

Your fee today is two beers

Our camp site at Daly Waters

We headed back south for a couple of klms to the Hi Way Inn road house to fuel and food up for our next leg to Mataranka

Business class please

Stay toooooned for Mataranka