We came out of Litchfield, on to Adelaide River to fuel up before we go back out to Daly River. Adelaide River is on the highway. Its the home of a Commemorative War Grave site – worth a look…..
It also holds a memorial to those who died in the raids on Darwin. It is a very serene scene.
After Adelaide River comes Daly River. Its a spot on the map to which we’ve of course never been, so whilst here we must see it then. After 40 or so K’s of bone jarring, rattle inducing bitumen road after leaving the Stuart H’way we hit the Daly River Road ironically one of the best roads we’ve yet been on. The good book says that the Daly River Tavern would be a good place to stay but upon arrival we find that its camp ground has been closed due to dunny deficiencies. Anyway, we found a place to prop, right on the Daly River. There ain’t much to see at Daly River….
but a salubrious marina and a randy peacock. Apparently plenty of people come here to catch barramundi, providing they can keep them from the crocs. We didn’t see any crocs but were told they were plentiful. Nothing else to hold our attention so after a very nice dinner of barramundi in the caravan park bistro (barra provided by Mr Barra delivered frozen from Darwin that very same day) and a good nights sleep we headed back out to the Stuart via the same road by which we came in. I should add that the road in was so bad before we hit the good bit that the Suzi had moved on the trailer and all the tie downs had bounced nearly off – caught it just in time. So, the trip back out entailed a few check stops to make sure the car was still tied down.
We were headed back to Katherine to then turn west but on the way back down we were passing the entry to Kakadu out of Pine Creek and being very conscious of our low opinion of the National Park and having missed Gunlom Falls on our first run through, decided to check them out first. At Pine Creek Robyn left us for the return journey home after nearly 6 weeks with us so we checked in to Pussy Cat Flats, offloaded Suzi and headed up to the Falls. About 100 km in and 37 k’s of dirt we got to the falls….
dry! Some water in the pond but looking pretty dirty. Regrettably, still another bit of the Kakadon’t experience.
4 days in Katherine trying to recover from a throat infection but finally got out to see Cutta Cutta caves…
We’ve made our way across the border into WA, now in Kununurra. Lots to see and do here so keep tuned in.
