Katherine to Daly Waters - 278km

Yesterday I travelled 139km and stayed at Warloch Rest Area overnight which is 37km South of Mataranka.  I filled up at Mataranka, and, enticed by a sign which said the local Mataranka beef and onion pie was the best in Australia, I bought one for my lunch.  It was so delicious I was wishing I could buy a couple to put in my freezer.  It was obviously home made with big chunks of beef and a lovely puff pastry lid on top.  So different from the factory made pies and it was so filling that I didn't feel like eating dinner last night.

I hope to check out more gourmet delights when I get further down the highway.  I am told that the camel and date sausages made by a butcher in Alice Springs are delicious and that people come from far and wide to buy them.   I'm looking forward to trying them, and hopefully by then I will have room to store some in my freezer.

When I checked my speedo after checking in to the caravan park here in Daly Waters I found that I had travelled 139 km today - exactly the same as yesterday.  Ever so slowly I'm travelling further south.  Its still hot, but the further inland I travel the nights are are gradually getting cooler.  It's going to drop to 13 tonight.

Daly Waters Souvenirs next to service station.

Aussie humour!

 Main Street Daly Waters.

Souvenirs again.

Service Station - You have to ask at the pub for fuel.

Daly Waters pub.  Across the road from service station.

Main Street Daly Waters.

Termite mounds everywhere.  This one is about 1 1/2 metres tall.