Thursday & Friday 21 - 22 June 2012 Stuart Monument to Daly Waters (via Renner Springs / Newcastle Waters)

Trip Meter Reading Start – 3905            Trip Meter Reading Finish – 4247
Total Km Travelled – 258 km

Fuel Costs & Consumption

Fill up Daly Waters Holiday Inn
Gas $1.09/litre $69.76 $70.00

Comments -  Luke Baker

Thursday - on the way to Daly Waters I watched a movie.  After that we stayed at Daly Waters we went to the Daly Waters pub and watched a ladie play the saxophone.  I also did a treasure hunt and won a prize.  I won a game of pool and ate some chips.
Friday – Today I had a swim in a pool just in the pub I had a game of pool.  I also bought a real canetoad stuby holder; mum was grosed out LOL!  I rode my bike to a billabong found a dried up cane toad and then I found a alive canetoad and I got a rock and wacked it on the head.  I also made a new friend Lleyton he lives in Victory.

Comments – Mum and Dad

Travelling toward our next night stop we called into look at Newcastle Waters which is pretty much a ghost town bar a few large cattle stations, a couple of houses and school.  The historic pub where stockman (who were eventually replaced by road trains )once quenched a hard earned beer closed some 20 years ago.  On the way in was a well established swamp and wetland full of bird life.  Further up the road after passing a million termite mounds, we finally reached the famous Daly Waters pub just 3k’s off the Stuart Highway.  At $14 a night for accommodation including 5 hours of free entertainment (Sax player and Chilli the guitarist and comedian) and a swimming pool for the kids we decided to stay for 2 nights to quench our hard earned thirst after suffering from the dryness of this outback land.  Cheap place to stay if you don’t drink.  The boys lobbed home at 1.30pm in the morning, helping the bar staff close up and finish off a couple around the fire place........approx $100 later between the two of them (oh and plus a bowl of chips).  So much for the cheap accommodation boys !!!!!
If you want a great place to stay with plenty of atmosphere, you have to come here, you just have to leave your bra, undies or thongs in the bar (just kidding, its not compulsory, but they are everywhere)