Darwin to Tennant Creek

Darwin to Tennant Creek – 7/5/12 

Well today we did almost 1,000km was 20km short was going to do a run up the road and back after we checked into the Motel, but no thought it was close enough and it was getting dark. Don't Need to tempt fate. One of the biggest hazards at the moment are the hakes and eagles eating road kill and flying back over us. The eagles are huge.

We stopped at Cutta Cutta Caves just south of Mataranka, but they had just gone on a tour and the next one was 2 hours later so we weren’t gonna be waiting around that long.

Stopped for the night in Tennant Creek after stop off in Renner Springs and Daly Waters. Were walking out for some dinner and was talking to another motel resident and suggested that it was not a good idea to walk down the streets of Tennant Creek. So we went on the bike. I really wouldn't have wanted to be walking down those streets, lots and lots of indigenous people (pc) some fighting. They reckon it is a really wild town. Last week some of them burnt their house down. We just went to a Memorial Club for dinner, a bit like the RSA and all the doors are locked and the do 24hr video surveillance on the place.

Saw a snake on the road today was gonna stop and take a photo but most of the snakes here are some of the most venomous in the world. And a lizard that had been run over. They say they like their Lizards frilled not grilled,also a dead pig first one of those.

As we get further inland the country side is becoming more desolate, rocks and rubble, less and less vegetation as opposed to around Darwin it is very green.