Day 16,17 & 18: Darwin-Alice Springs

Day 16,17 & 18: Darwin-Alice Springs
This part of the trip involves lots of travelling giving me oportunities for writing things for the blog in the mobile, while I am in the bus.

Day 16 Darwin to Katherine George
The Second Part of the trip started early. By 6 am we were already on our way. Again the trip was not full, there were only 11 people including myself (10 females and myself)

First stop of the day was to have breakfast in the Adelaide River Inn, with the big buffalo in crocodile Dundee.

After this there was a long 2 hours drive to the camping site to unpack all the food and prepare lunch.

Then we head to Katherine Gorge (Nitmiluk) and did some canoeing in the river caynon, plus swimming in the river, a tradition by now.

After that we went to Topidge Gallery, a gallery of aborigin art. There I was able to do my litle aborigin style drawing, absolutely awful.

Then after that we went to the camp for dinner, lamb couscous that Rich (the tour guide prepared it)before we headed to bed. I had again my own tend since i was the only bloke and we were not a full crowd.

Day 17 Katherine George to Tennant Creek.

The day started early again, 5:30, since today it was going to be a long day with lost of kms on the road. Hovever we were going to have few stops in the middle.
We started stopped fairly soon in Korran (Bitter Springs) thermal springs. Obviously as swimming was allowed so I did. Water was clean and warm, about 29 -30 C° but there area smelled not very well , so certainly this place I would only recomend If you are passing by and you want to get refreshed.

Stopped as well before lunch in the "Pink Panter" Pub / hotel(Larrimah Wayside inn), the highest pub in the Northern territory, at a "stunning" 180m. The places is an old pub, that need a redecoration 30 years ago,so It has a retro-style, clearly unintentional. It is weird that the TV room was also, the snake room, so next to the TV set you have a Phyton. The back garden was full of bird in jails , and I had a photo holding a small snake. We didn't stay long because the place doesn't have much to offer except for a tiny musseum tha tells about the rail durin WW-II.
Much more interesting was where we stopped for lunch, Daly Water. This time the Pub, dated 1930, had a maintained retro style interesting, in acordance with the rest of the village, which seemed to be taken from a 1940s film. The Público had fracturó decoration, specially inside, sinc the walls and ceiling was full of things left by guest, from student cards to bras & tangas.
Day Water was the first internacional airport in Australia, where planes used to refuel before going to other int locations.

After 3-4h drive we went to Tennant Creek, a small town but the biggest by far we have found since we left Darwin, which seems to survive with mining and little farming. By now the landscape changed significantly so it is now bushes and some scattered trees here and there.
The camp was outside Tennant Creek. We had Kangaroo stew for dinner.

Day 18 Tennant Creek to Alice Springs.
We started the day a bit later this time, but only 30 min later, so by 7 o'clock we were already in the bus.

First stop of the day was Devil's marbles (canicas del diablo). This is an area with with some very peculiar rock fornation. Took plenty of photos here. Unfortunately, most of the photos with me in are not very good, with the exception of a couple of them who took the pictures didn't make good use of the zoom on them.

Them we stopped for a "bio" break, on Wycliffe Well, suposely the location in the world with more UFO spotting in the world. Here many people that claim to have spottted UFOs. I didn't.

Lunch was at Barrow Creek, next to the an old telegraph station. We continue the trip stoping for some breaks in a couple of places, being the most significant the mark indicating we were crossing the Tropic of Capricorn. We reach to the tropic about 4:30, 10 min after I finished reading "Angels and demons" which i digested almost half of it in these three of intense bus.

Alice springs was not far. We arrived about 17:00. In the evening the plan was to go to have Diner in a reataurant called Bojungles, book by tge tour guide were i might be able to try camel or bufalo.

Tomorrow I have a very early start, 5:10 pick up.