Daly Waters - NT

Daly Waters is located 274 kilometres south of Katherine near the junction of the Stuart and Carpentaria Highways. Now little more than a stopover for people travelling along the Stuart Highway the tiny settlement was named by John McDouall Stuart during his epic attempt to cross Australia from south to north in 1861-2.

Despite the tiny population of the settlement, the Daly Waters' Pub is one of the Territory’s most famous watering holes. The Pub is one of the oldest buildings in the Northern Territory: a quaint place armoured with corrugated iron, draped with bougainvillea and decorated with decades of memorabilia.

Daly Waters has hot summer temperatures 24 ° - 35 °C and warm winter temperatures. 15 ° - 30 °C.