2o JUNE 06, 1030h.....Here we are at Daly Waters, they got a marvellous woodcutter here who can play the guitar as well..... he's quite a hilarious guy, wearing that little house on his head afraid that one day he might end up without a roof over his head......
And all the wood carving you see around Daly water is done by him alone...
you could see what the people actually leave behind in the pub... lingeries, money, caps, underwear,.....all sorts of items you would never finish guessing......there's the Reecepshun...haha... some history about Daly Water i took from wikipedia...
The name Daly Waters was given to a series of natural springs by John McDouall Stuart during his third attempt to cross Australia from south to north, in 1861-2. Stuart named the springs after the new Governor of South Australia, Sir Dominick Daly.
Stuart's first attempt, in 1860, had reached Tennant Creek. The second, in early 1861, pushed further north but again Stuart turned back. The third journey left Adelaide in October 1861 and reached Daly Waters on 28 May. The party had been pushing through difficult lancewood scrub and harsh terrain at a little over a kilometre a day. This journey was successful, reaching the north coast near modern Darwin on 24 July, 1862. Stuart's Tree has an 'S' carved into it by Stuart during his journey.
The Overland Telegraph Line reached Daly Waters from the north in June 1872 and for two months a 'pony express' carried messages the 421 km to Tennant Creek via Renner Springs Northern Territory.
The town airfield was a centre for the London to Sydney air race of 1926, a refuelling stop for early Qantas flights to Singapore, a World War II Airforce base and more recently an operational base for joint military manoeuvres. Although the aerodrome was closed to commercial traffic in 1965 the original Qantas hangar still stands, housing exhibits of photographs and equipment from the area's aviation past.
