Heading from Tennant Creek our stop over for the night was at Daly Waters. We’ve been told to stay at this little town in the middle of nowhere by quite a few people. Not sure of what to expect we drove in off the highway to investigate. At Daly Waters there is a caravan park and a Pub, that’s it, but truly that’s all anyone would ever need. The pub is the oldest one in the Territory and basically better than all the outback Pubs we’ve been to. It had more bras and more ID cards hanging up than William Creek, more country artefacts than Oodnadatta, Marree, and Kingoonya Pubs put together, and unlike any others had the most remote traffic light and parking metres.
But to top it all off Daly Waters Pub had the first ever McDonalds Restaurant in the Northern Territory; the Plaque also states:
“Also the shortest lived, most remote, least visited, and the most limited menu McDonalds ever built and demolished in the world”
In the Pub History...look near the ATM |
The town was also known for having the first international airport in Australia when the town was used as a rear guard base during the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese in WWII. This little but unique town was certainly worth the visit especially if your after a good cold beer and a hearty meal. Happy hour was ‘toss a coin against the bar’; pick heads for tails in a toss and if you get it right the beer was FREE. Dave got 3 out of 4 right which made for a cheap drinking afternoon. Their world famous Beef & Barra meal included a massive porterhouse steak and filets off a barramundi which was worth the extra money. Later in the night we had free entertainment with old slim dusty songs, poems of Snowy River and their horses, tales of mustering and horse breaking, songs of the Australian flag, and everything patriotic to this country.
The caravan park was excellent and because a mix up with the Irish receptionist, instead of paying $14 a night we ended up paying only $4. Haha another one up for us.
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