Daly waters aviation complex 15th July

Heading north again and we stopped at Banka Banka homestead for morning tea. Not much to see other than the rusty old Holden in the front yard. Stopped at Elliot for fuel ( diesel $1.99) Elliot was a staging camp during WW2 and up to 1500 men were camped here. This was used a a luncheon point for north bound convoys travelling on their third day from Alice springs and it was an overnight stop for south bound convoys travelling from larrimah.
Further on we went into Newcastle waters where Kerry Packer had a
massive property and there is a town still intact at the junction of the cattle droving junction. Drovers would arrive and leave from here sometimes with 1600 cattle heading to qld or Alice springs and they would take around 10 weeks which is a feat in it's self especially in those days.
They were issued permits that recorded
The ear tags, number, route to be taken and start and expected finish date. These documents are still up on the wall for all to See.
All buildings are still intact including the junction hotel that opened in 1930 and closed in 1955 are in good condition. We travelled on to the daly waters WW2 airport and camped for the night.After setting up camp,decided to have a look around the old WW2 air base.