After 2 days at Banka Banka we left and continued our northward trek up the Stuart Hwy. First stop was Elliot for a morning Coffee which in hindsight was a mistake, not a very nice town with a not very nice sales person in the cafe and also not very nice Coffee’s. Leave Elliot of your Bucket List of place to see peoples!

From Elliot it was to the Daly Waters Pub for a drink and bite to eat. It’s an iconic place, about 5 k’s in from the Stuart highway and the pub camping area was absolutely packed. It was the main reason we decided to move on further north to a free camp area and we found a ripper. Back in WW2 there were many airstrips built after Darwin was attacked to help defend the north of Australia. There are still remnants of many WW2 installations along the Stuart highway and Gorrie airstrip is one that was been made available for Grey and not so Grey Nomads. It’s a bit of a rough track in but well worth the effort. We had a great night there. I walked the 2 k long airstrip and we had a great fire and the stars were in abundance later in the evening. A memorable stay for a number of reasons but for me it was one of the airstrips my father help build and maintain when he was with the RAAF Airfield Construction Squadron in Darwin, so it had special significance to me.