Finally, we reached Three Way RoadHouse. Every road house provides food accomodation petrol and other stores we could purchase to stock up our vehicle. Caravan Driving is so common in Australia that you don't have to worry that you will be left alone in the Central Plains.....haha...That's me in the restaurant....

20 JUNE 06, 1125h

As we travel South, we came to Dunmarra Roadhouse Inn. We stop at all petrol stations to top up the fuel tank and also to take a break from the long hours of driving.

Spot this sunset outback painting in the restaurant and took a picture of it. Time now is 11:25am and the sun is hot....

1202h.....we continue our journey and notice some cows peeping at us...haha....yeah... we stop by and took their pictures..... Never did I see real live cows in an open field beside the commercial on HL milk....

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.

we came across this deserted World War 2 airfield .... its kinda cool...they still have the crashed plane left there....

0841h...early in the morning......we had brunch at the petrol station as well though...haha


We had to fill up petrol and saw this damn cute dog lofting around the station.

At mataranka, we went to the famous mataranka thermal pool. our original plan was to stayed over at Mataranka Homestead Resort but it was still early in the morning, so we decided to

move along and proceed to Tennant Creek

20 JUNE06

HEY! long time no post le...haha... been busy... well.. after playing with the horse we carried on with our trip...




the next morning, we were on our way to Mataranka.... thats what we saw along the road early in the morning....animals were killed easily along highway due to the high speed cars travel and mostly which met with such tragedy are kangaroos....

On our way back, we met some friends. Gen was saying I lame til I got in touch with the horses. She came and join me in the end. However, careless of her, she got cut by the barb wire and left a deep scar on her arm.

In the afternoon, we drove to Nitmiluk National Park which is in the Northern Territory of Australia, 244 km southeast of Darwin. It has been established around a series of gorges on the Katherine River and Edith Falls.

We canoed in Katherine Gorge itself during late afternoon and I nearly got washed down by the rushing river. There were a few rapids we had to dismount our canoe and pull it across the rocks. However, the return trip back was easier as we just flowed along the river.

So we entered the cave, no bats seen though. I remembered during Outward Bound Sabah the cave was really dark and bats were all around above our head. Those night creatures just pee and shit on us and the smell really gets deep into our nose.

The cave was more enriched with minerals and history. Inside the cave, the humidity was higher it feels warmer though.

We had to walk along a route before the Cave... well.. its not really a route we MUST take ... but the tour guide explained the minerals formed from the vicinity of the cave, showing us how rich in nutricient the ground is.... everything is big size in australia...remember the termite mould??

Day 5 19JUNE 06

Here we are at Cutta Cutta Caves, a well-known batcave and see what we found in the visitor centre, the preserved bones and carcass of the bats and creatures found.... reminds of my primary school science laboratory...haha....

We stayed over at Knotts Caravan Park in Katherine, had to top up our petrol first and got a bit lost within Katherine. LOL. However, we manage to get to the Caravan Park and spend our night there. Gen always cook lovely meal for us. for me? i just help out...haha..

I want to go back to the time when I had you...

Day 4 18JUNE 06

and then, we were on our way to Katherine after visiting Cooinda. Nothing much at Cooinda except for the Yellow Waters. Driving was long and exhausting, we had to take turns. Came to this Gwendoline Rd. ahaha.

Some of the birds we saw at the Yellow River..

Day 4 18JUNE 06

Here we are at Nourlangie Rock located in Kakadu Park. We stayed at Kakadu Lodge & Caravan the Night before in Jabiru.

Nourlangie is located in an outlying formation of the Arnhem Land Escarpment within the Kakadu National Park. It can be reached off the Kakadu Highway between Jabiru and Cooinda. There are a number of shelters in amongst this large outcrop linked by at 1.5km circular walk. The shelters contain several impressive paintings that deal with creation ancestors. The stories connected to these artworks are known only to certain Aboriginal people and remain secret. many aboriginies lived here