Saturday...30 July 2011

Another good day!
Left Threeways nice and early, well early for us at 9am ish. Stopped for lunch along the way at one of the wayside camps. Quite a pretty little place and well set out but we were determined to continue to Daly Waters. Daly Waters is one of the iconic little places in Australia that everyone should come to at least once in their lives. Middle of absolutley no where but such a fascinating place. \
We came here originally in 1992 on the way to somewhere else. We dropped in at 8am in the morning and the barman said help yourself I am going to bed! Apparently they had had quite a night the night before and the last jackaroo had left at 6am! The owner quit and went to bed sometime earlier and left them working an honour system at the bar and surprise surprise the till balanced!!!!!
Today we booked into the caravan park owned and operated by the Daly Waters pub (not here in days gone by) and strolled to the pub at happy hour. They toss a coin to halve the bill during happy hour. We called heads and won so only paid for Himselfs beer, my wine was free. This was accompanied by a bloke singing with recorded accommpanyment. Bloody good. You also had the chance to dine on Beef and Barra on the BBQ. We gave it a miss but it did smell good.
The bar at the Daly is reknown for its collection of memorbillia beginning with bras which began collecting during WW2. Hanging from every place are donated bras, quite a collection and actually a hanging history of the bra over the years. Also pinned everywhere are banknotes of every country. This pub is a museum of natural history of the inventivness of Australians to begin a collection. The bar has the bra collection, the money collection and the first know thong tree too. Scattered around the bar are all sorts of items of clothing donated or left behind along with art works and other bits and pieces as people who were determined to be remembered have left things claiming their place in history. Truely a fascinating place. 
Tomorrow we move on towards Katherine and eventually Kakadu.