Sun 1st – Wed 4th August. Mataranka-Daly Waters-Queensland

Sunday 1st August

Up early in the morning for another dip in Bitter springs.  This time it definitely felt warm as the outside temperature was only around 20 degrees.  Lovely to start the day.

 

 

 

Then on to Larrimah Hotel, its in the pub book, for a quick drink before heading to Daly Waters pub for lunch.

 

 

  

 

Overnight in a “Gravel Pit”, although it was much better than it sounds.  Well off the road so nice and quiet.

 

 

Monday 2nd August

Another long travel day today.  But we did manage to finally get back into Queensland… Yeah!

 

 

And after crossing the border we settled in overnight at the Camooweal Billabong.

 

 

 

Tuesday 3rd August

Initial thoughts today was to stay here, as the temperature forecast was to be a high of 26 degrees (down from yesterdays 35 degrees) but the wind had picked up so would have been uncomfortable anyway.  So we’ve decided to pack up and continue on.  Probably plan to do only about 400 km’s a day now that we are in Queensland.  We shall see.

Travelled to Walkabout Creek Hotel at McKinley, the hotel they used for the Crocodile Dundee movies… sort of.  They have moved the pub from the side street and put it on the main street and the actual bar used in the movie is in the shed out the back.

 

 

 

But as we were staying out the back of the Walkabout Creek Hotel we thought it fitting to refresh our memories and watch Crocodile Dundee after the pub closed.  Funnier than we remembered.

 

 

Wednesday 4th August

Lunch at the Blue Heeler Hotel (pub book).

 

Then checked out Winton and overnighted at Darr River just before Longreach.  Nice roadside stop.