Day 12 - part two - Daly Waters and the Dog People

Daly Waters deserves a post all on its own. The pub is a few kilometres off the highway about 300k south of Katherine. The village is comprised of the pub, adjoining caravan park and cabins and then a few houses. It seems they just party day and night. They put on a show every night and the food is fairly delicious too.

The inside of the pub.

,,,,,,,and more on grey nomads. But before I continue with the story, a little background. For those who don't know, grey nomads are senior's who travel around in Winnebago's or caravans and camp. They like to be off the road by 2:30 so as to get a good camping spot....... and now on with the story.

Just after I arrived at Daly Waters I was sitting in the bar having a G n T when a German couple walked in. The man said they had just come down from Darwin and they wanted to know where they could find the "Grey Nomad".( Please use a German accent when reading as it's much funnier) They had only been travelling in the NT for a week, but had heard the Grey Nomad mentioned quite a lot and wanted to know if it was a bird or an animal, and where they would go to see it. The Irish girl at the bar tried to stifle a smile, the rest of the bar wasn't so successful. One bloke yelled out that they wouldn't see one now as it was too late in the day, they tend not to be around after 3:00pm and they travel in pairs. The German, yarred a bit and then asked again, was it a bird or an animal? The bloke at the bar told then it was an animal, whilst we all sniggered. It was v v funny. The poor bloke is probably still looking for them.

and now for the dogs...

I've noticed over the past few days that there are lots of vans towing trailers that house dogs. The vans pull up and they bring out the dogs which are all fairly spiffy. It turns out that there are 3 weeks of dog shows, starting in Alice Springs and culminating in Darwin. 

Tomorrow I'm off to Katherine.

Kilometres travelled -  245