Today we left Alice very early this morning and drove to Daly Waters. We are staying at the Hiway Inn, a roadhouse at the junction of the two highways. Just down the road is the famous Daly Waters pub which we visited this evening. The historic pub houses a collection of bras, undies, caps, hats, thongs and other knick knacks. Funny signs,such as “angle parking, any angle will do”.
There’s not much to see along the highway but we stopped at a couple of the roadhouses along the way, Aileron where they have a gigantic statue of the Aileron man on a hill and then Wycliiff Well, home of the most UFO sightings in Australia, strange lights in the sky, a bit like the Min Min lights near Boulia. We stopped briefly in Elliott and then we went to Newcastle Waters an old historic town where the highway used to go. There is a school and a park with statue of a drover stockman.
The next day we headed for Katherine stopping at the thermal springs at Mataranka along the way. We didn’t go in the water as the pool is about 2 metres deep. The water there is a constant 32 degrees.
We found another thermal pool in the Katherine river and it wasn’t deep, so we spent a couple of hours in the lovely warm water there (32 dgrees again) cooling off from the current August heatwave. It was 36 degrees.
Today we went on a 2 hour boat tour of Katherine Gorge. Another 36 degree day. The trip up the gorge was excellent. We did two gorges. We had to change boats at one point and get out of the first boat and walk over the rocks, stopping along the way to see the aboriginal rock art, to the second boat that took us up the second gorge. Then repeat the process in reverse to come back again.
Coming back the guide took the boat close along the shoreline looking for some freshwater crocs but we didn’t see any today.
After our cruise we took a drive out to Edith Fall. It is a very picturesque waterhole with some waterfalls where lots of people were in swimming today.
Tomorrow we will leave here fairly early (to beat the heat) and make our way to Darwin.
There’s not much to see along the highway but we stopped at a couple of the roadhouses along the way, Aileron where they have a gigantic statue of the Aileron man on a hill and then Wycliiff Well, home of the most UFO sightings in Australia, strange lights in the sky, a bit like the Min Min lights near Boulia. We stopped briefly in Elliott and then we went to Newcastle Waters an old historic town where the highway used to go. There is a school and a park with statue of a drover stockman.
The next day we headed for Katherine stopping at the thermal springs at Mataranka along the way. We didn’t go in the water as the pool is about 2 metres deep. The water there is a constant 32 degrees.
We found another thermal pool in the Katherine river and it wasn’t deep, so we spent a couple of hours in the lovely warm water there (32 dgrees again) cooling off from the current August heatwave. It was 36 degrees.
Today we went on a 2 hour boat tour of Katherine Gorge. Another 36 degree day. The trip up the gorge was excellent. We did two gorges. We had to change boats at one point and get out of the first boat and walk over the rocks, stopping along the way to see the aboriginal rock art, to the second boat that took us up the second gorge. Then repeat the process in reverse to come back again.
Coming back the guide took the boat close along the shoreline looking for some freshwater crocs but we didn’t see any today.
After our cruise we took a drive out to Edith Fall. It is a very picturesque waterhole with some waterfalls where lots of people were in swimming today.
Tomorrow we will leave here fairly early (to beat the heat) and make our way to Darwin.
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