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Forty days' bike tour across Australia, by Jan Boonstra.
Daly Waters with its famous pub 
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.
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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.
Interesting links referring to the region:
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