Monday the 25th of July 2022 – Banka Banka, Northern Territory

Happy Hour & Damper at Banka Banka Station

We left Wauchope and travelled the few K’s north to the Devils Marbles. We stayed about an hour and walked around the site, its just like giants have dropped pebbles around the country side and this is the result. The red centre is amazing when you think within a radius of 400 k’s from Alice Springs there are so many different and great natural wonders, The Rock, Olgas, Kings Canyon, Mt Connor, Standley Chasm, Simpsons Gap, Devils Marbles and there are som many more places to see. The photos below are just some of the many I took in my walks.

Looking across the site to the car park
There are walks all thru the site, which is surprising as the indigenous class the site as sacred and at the Rock and the Olgas you could not walk on or take photos as it was classed as sacred. Go figure!
How would these go as a garden feature!

From the Marbles we travelled to Tennant Creek for brunch and a fuel stop. Tennant Creek is a very bleak town, it has a very heavy indigenous population that seem to have nothing to do but sit or walk around town. We had the same feeling 2 years ago when we visited, I do hope there is a brighter future ahead for them.

Banka Banka Station & Tourist Park from the lookout.

We planned to have a rest day at Banka Banka, just a full day to do bugger all, rest up for some long days ahead. I managed to do a few little repair jobs on the van, so the day was well spent. Andrew and I then went up to the lookout with a bottle of red and saw out the day, hoping for spectacular sunset. It was good but I think the red was better!

A Banka Banks sunset!

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