Daly Waters Pub to Buntine Highway - Day 33, 11/5/2016

Today we were back on the dirt and it was good to be off the busy and very boring main highways but before we got there I filled up with diesel at the Hi Way Inn Daly Waters.

 The dirt road to Top Springs was in surprisingly good condition, we stopped at Top Springs where I made the mistake of topping up the tank ($2.30 per liter) but doing so would get me through to Halls Creek. After Top Springs it was back onto single lane sealed road for some time which was terrible and once we reached Kalkarindji the road turned back to dirt and was the best dirt road we have been on so far. It wasn't long until we needed to find a camp and Wiki Camps came to the rescue and we found a spot near Inverway Station about 80kms east of the WA border.

Distance Traveled = 522 km
Total distance traveled with camper = 27,668 km 
Total number of nights in the camper = 176


























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