Took in a bit of the history of Daly Waters before we left. Saw the “Stuart Tree” where Stuart (obviously) carved an “S” during his exploration from South to North Australia. He discovered Daly Waters in 1862. It has Australia’s first international airport – which was the rear guard base during the bombing of Darwin in WW2, the hangar remains there.
Get into Mataranka at midday (seems to be the time to stop) and grab our powered site (yippee!) We take the short walk into the hot (warm) springs from the park. The lush, tropical environment is just beautiful! (can take a bit more of this). Kids were rapt to be finally in a “pool”. Apologies to all wanting to relax in there J
Bit more wildlife around here, a wallaby attached itself to us pretty quickly (looking for food, am under no illusions), peacocks abound, and there would have to have been thousands apon thousands of flying foxes heading into the National Park for the night.
Also has been very loud karoke going in the bar since late afternoon....ummm, not wanting to be a killjoy, but getting late and kiddies need their sleep (last night was a late one). Am hoping they wrap it up pretty soon, luckily the songs are at least all 80s numbers....may head up there later (not!)
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