To Renner Springs

Up early for breakfast for our 800 kilometre drive to Renner Springs.  First stop is the Lazy Lizard Hotel at Pine Creek.  A quirky little hotel with plenty of history in and around the pub including its’ own collection of local pythons, crocodile skins, heads and claws and very poor quality cappuccinos!

Next stop was an early lunch stop at Katherine, of course we stopped at the first service station, bought a pie and sausage roll which were nice but the disgusting toilets were very unpleasant.  Through Katherine and of course there are plenty of facilities which would have been a little more in our style.

Called into Daly River Hotel at about 2pm and had a cold beer and wine to wash the dust down.  One of the best pubs in the west with so many things to look at, could have stayed for hours.  Took plenty of photos!!

Finally made it to Renner Springs, it’s a motel/hotel in the middle of the desrt (as the locals say) but a bit past halfway to Alice Springs, clean and quiet so looking forward to a nice tea and a good sleep for the next trip of about 700 kilometres to Alice Springs tomorrow

Saw some interesting wildlife today, a dingo enjoying the early morning sun near the side of the road, a snake who tried to get run over but we missed him by….this much.  A couple of dead buffalo on the side of the road, obviously victim of the trucks in the area.  Lots of birds, the usual suspects -  black and white cockatoos, corellas and hundreds of small birds who weren’t too smart, I think we hit about a dozen.  We were a bit more careful when we were close to the wedge tailed eagles, think they’d do a little more damage than a budgerigar?

The landscape of course has changed from wetlands with pandanas palms and tea tree scrub, through rocky ranges and now into low growing wattles and wild flowers.  The red of the earth is so rich here it looks unnatural.  

Lazy Lizard bar at Pine Creek

Lots of photos of the Daly Waters Hotel

Mens toilet

Hand basins in mens toilet

Self explainitory dart board

Service station across the road

Main road Daly Waters

Renner Springs - just a dot in the middle of the desert

Renner Springs main bar

Looks like someone has somewhere to stay when he visits?