Friday the 18th June, 2021

Really getting remote. The Savannah Way.

A relaxed start at Daley waters NT and a bit of a sleep in. We had turned off the air conditioning and had a nice warm night with fresh air.

Nice hot shower and a relaxed breakfast in the cabin before packing up the car and heading over to the pub for Wi-Fi. Queensland last night brought in a new requirement for a border pass and this would be our last opportunity for some time to access the Internet.

Once done we headed out on the road for Mataranka where we filled up with fuel. It was a long straight road with reasonable traffic and they were all pretty much travelling on the 130kmh speed limit. Plenty of road trains and even a (very large) truck carrying 2 cement trucks!

We had to back track from Mataranka after fueling up, around 7 km to the road leading into Roper Bar for access to the Savannah Way.

We made a few flying stops to photograph wildflowers and pulled into an off-road and parked with beehives for a morning tea break.





It was some 270km into Roper Bar on mostly single lane asphalt and red sand either side. 

Plenty of signage along the way.

All sorts of traffic including road trains! They were interesting to pass on this narrow road and definitely had complete right of way! No shortage of red dust!

On coming vehicles generated plenty of red dust

Throughout the whole trip we were treated to a wide variety of termite mounds, big and little, tall and short, red, white and brown.

Tall red termite mounds in the savannah


We found a nice lay by for a lunch stop then headed on and found the general store and fuel stop at Roper Bar. Got the key to the diesel pump from the friendly proprietor and topped up the fuel.


Lunch stop!

Loads of beautiful red road...

General store and fuel pump - key required. Also camp proprietor.

After a nice chat, we ended up staying in his camp ground a bit back down the road for $10@/night. Tomato Point was the next alternative but a bit of a distance away and it was getting late. Next time!

Cooking up a storm.

Always notices to 'close the lid'!!

A lovely secluded spot with 3 other campers, back of nowhere on the river. Set up the roof top tent and went for a walk before boiling the Billy then cooking dinner. A night time stroll by the river didn't reveal any crocs gliding by, or actually anything alive!

What we saw today:

  • Brolgas
  • Flock black cockatoos 
  • wonderful trees, wildflowers, termite mounds and dust!

Information for next trip: try Tomato Point camp ground on river.


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