Devils Marbles - Banka Banka - Daly Waters

See if you can spot our car & van at Devil's Marbles.   Cost was $7/night.   Camp was a dust bowl but the views were sensational of the great boulders that look like marbles. We could have stayed here for 2 nights easily.  The kayak has definitely looked out of place thru Central Australia!

As you can see some of the "marbles" started to fall towards camp but I managed to stop this one!!

Tony's first fire for the triip at Devil's Marbles....   having Happy Hour with friends we met in Alice Springs.. Later we cooked our loin chops on the open fire for dinner.   As we were packing up to go inside for the night a dingo walked passed our camp twice looking for food & at 2am the whole pack starting howling to each other.   The "Loo" was officially christened with "No 2's" here as it was too scary to go outside & the dump toilet was disgusting.........& no, Tony didn't make me empty it (this time)!

 Banka Banka is a great stopover. Beautiful green oval & our site was in the middle under shade so we were able to observe the other campers! We ventured up to the communal camp fire with our wine after tea & chatted to other tourists heading in the same direction.... a lot of whom we seem to keep meeting up with!

Finally time for some R & R at Banka Banka - yeh!!!

 

Daly Waters Pub is a must stopover.... Another dust bowl with a few trees (lucky we had one as it is starting to get quite hot during the day).    The photo above is the "Reecepshun" where you book your site.   Menu at the Pub was  Barra & Steak, Steak & Barra or Steak or Barra.   The meals were very good tho & the  entertainment was great - guitar/singer, funny story teller & the owners son who had just returned from Afghanastan sang 4 songs as well.  

Nikki, this photo is for you to have a look at.  If you look closely at the bib left in the Pub on the top right hand side, has the name "Bean" written on it!

We spent some time wandering around looking at the memorabilia people have left there, from nickers, jocks, bras to money & business cards & then a must have wine at the bar before dinner!   We didn't recognise anyone's jocks, nickers or bras!  If anyone is thinking of visiting this Pub in the near future.... see if you can see ours!