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Daly Waters is a town situated a few miles off the Stuart Highway. Since there aren't many towns in this part of the world, I was happy to make a detour for a visit. The settlement has a population of 17, so there wasn't much to visit. It has a famous pub, that was enough reason for me to go there. Not for the beer, but for the breakfast. It was 9 a.m. and I had just completed another exciting night and dawn ride. Terribly hungry I attacked a marvelous meal. The reason why Daly Waters existed on the map and the pub existed in Daly Waters, was because of an airstrip. Nowadays, planes can travel non-stop over great distances, but a few decades ago, planes couldn't cross the Australian continent without a stopover. Daly Waters had prospered because of this, but technical developments made the airstrip obsolete. Now, the fame of the pub keeps Daly Waters on the map. (more on http://bora.dacom.co.kr/~boonstra/aus/page06.htm )
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