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Mataranka Slideshow
Mataranka
Travel Blogs from Mataranka, Australia
Kakaduuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
This is a top pick! Another day , another relocation. That's right , we were about to go with two guys that had a car when we began calling the rental agencies. Finally , we found a relocation from Darwin to Adelaide that needs to be back by the beginning of July and ...
Road Trip - Day 5 to 9
Not a good start to day 5, Stimpy was being really temperamental and would only start with Matt 'shorting' the starter motor with a screwdriver! Drove for a few hours, through some grotty little towns and more outback. Decided to stop for petrol at ...
Thermal Springs
... was damaged by a couple of cyclones so a lot of it is closed. We planned our route and headed on our way! We stopped at Mataranka and stayed at Elsey National Park, a small park with thermal hot springs!! Had a soak in one of the pools and camped for the ...
Bitter Springs and Elsey National Park
... Springs were really warm,and very Emerald Blue.Marc,dad,mum, and I enjoyed snorkelling in the beautiful water. We also went to the Mataranka Manor for lunch and watched a man hand feeding a Barramundi, he even let Dad and Marc have a go. After that we ...
Some More Firsts!
From Daly Waters, we travelled on to Mataranka - famous for its hot springs, barramundi fishing in the Roper River and Elsey Station that was home to Aenneas and Jeannie Gunn and the setting and inspiration for the classic novel 'We of the Never Never'. ...
Mataranka- klimatyczne miejsce
Dzisiaj zegnamy sie z Mataranka, w moich wspomnieniach kojarzyc sie bedzie z cieplem, wszedobylskimi zwierzakami, I muzyka po zachodzie slonca… Ogolnie duza 5 z plusem. Najchetniej zostalabym tu jeszcze troche, ale niestety plan mamy napiety :) ...
Such a lot of bats!
... we didn’t have any luck and so had to give the Lost City a miss. From there, we pretty much just drove to Mataranka. Mataranka was quite nice (but also very hot still). We didn’t even set up the Ultimate properly before racing down the hot ...
Mataranka
... week concentrated swimming lessons at Darwin for this kid, before we move ahead. The animals are also very friendly at Mataranka, we have quite a few peacocks roaming around as well as Kangaroo's which want feeding from us twice daily. The ...
Kakadu and Litchfield National Parks
10/04/06 Jim: hello there folks.... I hope you are all well!! Well I have now been back in Darwin for a couple of days recovering from my trips to the national parks. I had the pleasure of doing the trip with 4 Irish boys so you all know what that ...
Darwin to Alice Springs dag 2
Bestemming van vandaag is Mataranka. Hier is een thermal pool waar we gingen zwemmen. Pool was helemaal niet zo groot, maar wat er omheen is, is wel heel bijzonder. Veel palmbomen met allemaal vleermuizen. In de middag was het vooral in de bus zitten ...
Day NINETEEN
... beautiful day" and it was. The last couple of days after entering the tropics have been distinctly warmer. Today was comparing Mataranka thermal spring to the Bitter spring. The Mataranka main spring was like a swimming pool with stone sides making it ...
Bitter Springs
... fish and the scenery (under and above) was great! There are palm trees everywere. It is like a tropical resort. We are stayin at Mataranka Cabins and Camping were we are right on the river bed! The river was full with water and also fish and Fresh Water ...
Zabieram ta wanne z ciepla woda ze soba!
... to do tego sprytne. Potafia strzyknac woda na wysokosc okolo 1 metra w gore I stracic lecacego nad nimi owada! Sama Mataranka to kilka chalup, sklep, stacja benzynowa I w zasadzie to juz koniec. Zjedlismy lody, zatankowalismy I w zasadzie mielismy juz ...
Day EIGHTEEN
... at the famous pub. The walls were all filled with underwear, business cards, stickers, old money and caps. When we arrived at Mataranka we were lucky to get a powered site (fridge still bust.) We then jumped into our bathers and went into the HOT spring ...
Daly Waters, Termite Central to Hot Spring Heaven
... it’ll get somewhere, and the kids duly dumped their postcards into the box. So, if you receive a card, it was a genuine Australia Post mailbox – please leave a comment to let us know what the postmark on the card says. If you ...
Elsey National park - Land of the Never Never
... . Her book gave a great perspective on how live was back in those early days and is an Australian classic. Close by were Mataranka hot pools. These too were very beautiful and we promised ourselves a trip back to Mataranka at some point in the future. ...
Kakadu
AFter much discussion and measuring of distances we decided to come to Kakadu National Park. You may ask, why so much debate, the reason is, its 120 miles from the entrance of the park to the main attractions! and we would have to retrace our steps ...
Day 253-254 Daly Waters Pub
... display including two fresh water crocs. Daly Waters would be our destination after we decided we couldn’t be bothered stopping at Mataranka as well. We just wanted to begin the journey across into QLD. We arrived at Daly Waters at 5pm just in time ...
Mataranka
... birthday), wine and new thongs! The boys helped me do the obligatory eggs minus bacon breakfast (nothing open in downtown Mataranka to purchase any bacon on a Sunday morning!). We headed into Mataranka for a coffee at the Stockman's ...
One Hot Night
We dropped the bus off & then headed to Fannie Bay for a look around. We stopped in at a reserve on the water & let the kids have a play at the park seeing it was only 8:30am & the Gaol we were gonna have a look at didn't open ...
Nothing like a warm bath...
... of the Never-Never, written in 1908 by "Mrs Aeneas (Jeannie) Gunn", wife of the manager of Elsey Station (which became Mataranka and Elsey National Park). Mrs Gunn came to Elsy in 1902 as a bride from Melbourne, finding a one room "homestead" ...
Oj cieplutko.....
Pobudka byla wczesna- 5 rano. Dziadki zaczely palic silniki I w trase (pewnie w ich wieku tez nie bede mogla spac). My bylismy w drodze o 8.30, dzisiaj mamy do przejechnia tylko 260km. Stopniowo bedziemy juz zwalniac jako ze udalo nam sie w koncu uciec ...
Mataranka
... : On roule toujours sur la Stuart Highway vers le Nord (et la chaleur) parmi les "grey nomads"dans leur caravane. Arrivee a Mataranka,la temperature monte a 30 degres, on sort les shorts a nouveau.On campe le long d'une riviere de Élsey national PArk et ...
Mataranka - Daly Waters
... .com Well we did our shopping at Katherine and got the last of the half reasonably priced fuel for awhile and drove to Mataranka. Had a look around for a couple of hours, drove out to the 12 Mile Yards which is a huge camping area on the Roper ...
Mataranka
Von Katherine sind es nur 111 km bis Mataranka. Dieser Ort ist bekannt fuer seine glasklaren warmen Quellen. Dort koennte man auch wieder Kanus mieten, ABER das Wasser vom Roper River ist immer noch zu hoch, darum war es leider auch hier nicht ...
Toad Busters
... for the season, unless your happy to perform yourselves which we considered for a moment then promptly booked into Mataranka's Territory Manor Caravan Park. That afternoon we visited the warm thermal streams at Bitter Springs and Mataranka ...
First stay in a National park
... to Ann Mary Dam to have lunch there.. That was a nice quiet spot, a perfect place to have lunch ;) From ther we drove to Mataranka.. We didn't know where we would spend the night.. But we wanted to get as close as possible to Kakadu. The World Heritage ...