NT - Daly Waters

We began our trip south from Darwin heading to Mackay on the Queensland coast. From there we would begin the final leg towards home in Newcastle. Weather in Darwin had been around 35 degrees each day and very humid so we were hoping to be in cooler weather soon. No such luck!
Each day south of Darwin the weather was between 35 and 40 degrees. As soon as we had settled into our campsites we turned on the air conditioning. We were planning on doing a few free camps by the side of the road on this leg but due to the heat we opted for caravan parks and a powered site.


We stopped at Mataranka and had a swim in the beautiful clear thermal pools. The air temperature was 40 and the water temperature was 34. Normally it would have been very pleasant but in 40 degrees the water needed to be a little cooler to make it more refreshing. I can imagine that in cooler weather traveling to each of the many springs would be a wonderful trip in itself.






Daly Waters was our second overnight stop after Darwin, and very entertaining. We stayed in the camping area at the back of the pub, had the renowned Barra and Beef barbeque dinner and enjoyed looking at all the memorabilia in the pub. This pub is 3 kilometres off the Stuart Hwy and well worth the stop. During the cooler months, there is live entertainment but we were a couple of weeks too late for this. Watching the locals was entertainment enough!