After a pretty noisy night (the place had a huge generator for the power, which was running all the time!), we left Barkly Homestead and headed for the Stuart Highway. It was a pretty windy day. We saw several flocks of budgies....hundreds of them, and all green!
The painting of the bird was on the amenities block at the dam. You see a lot of these birds every day.
There were many landscape changes along the way, from low scrub to taller trees to anthills,
to burnt out areas....passed lots of caravans and several road trains.
When we reached the Stuart Highway, we went south to have a look at Tennant Creek. After getting some meat for tea, and filled up the diesel, we found a lovely spot to have lunch..Lake Mary Anne Dam, just on the northern side of Tennant Creek....it was extremely windy, so after taking a few photos, we ate lunch in the car!
We eventually arrived at Dunmarra, and booked in for the night. A nice caravan park behind a pub....happy hour at 5pm...all drinks $3 (except spirits). In the pub, there were some glass enclosures with snakes in them...yuk!
In the middle of the park was a big aviary with some parrots inside....out the back were some buffalo in a paddock.
Out the front of the pub, we met a lovely young couple from Belgium, Tom and Jemina, who are cycling on their tandem to Darwin. They have already cycled from the top to the bottom of NZ, then from Sydney to Adelaide, then Adelaide to Darwin....then they're going up to Indonesia and across to Belgium....amazing!
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