Left Tennant Creek at 5.30am because I did not set my clock to the new time zone, stopped for fuel and breakfast at Renner Springs.The outside of this stop looked like a lot of other roadhouses along the way but the inside showed it must come alive during the wet season when people get stuck at the stop. The bar was probably the most interesting I have seen in a long time and was certainly the focus point of the whole roadhouse, the rest of the decor could have come out of the 70's except for the demountable shower and toilet facilities.
Then onto Daly Waters which is just off the highway but well worth the stop as the photo's show, the service station was serving fuel which is run by the hotel and both look like the could fall down at any stage, the bar here is interesting as they have a big display of Bra's and Jock over the top of the main bar and currency from all around the world stuck to the walls, at least the drinks were cold and refreshing.
We looked at one of the WW2 air fields that are still usable if an emergency required it to be used, there are quite a few of these around this area.
Arrive into Mataranka Homestead at about 1.30pm, we had a good look at our accommodation and the bathroom facilities which was 1 shower and 1 toilet for more than 15 people, the room didn't have a window to the outside just onto the hall way and smelt the bed was just a dirty mattress on a wire frame and the aircon was non existant. We decided to look at the Territory Manner Caravan Park and Motel which a fellow had told us about at Daly Waters the day before, when we got there we asked to look at the room before taking it and was asked where we had been booked into before arriving at their door they just smiled and did not comment.
This new accommodation was excellent and the staff could not do more to help we left very happy with our stop.
Total distance travelled 4,731 Klm's
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