Stopover at Dunmarra roadhouse

After 311 Kilometres from Katherine, we arrived at Dunmarra Roadhouse for an overnight stop. Despite the weather being hot, we were blessed with a refreshingly cool evening where we didn’t need the air conditioner on to sleep to for the first time in over 3 weeks! Dunmarra is basically a truck stop on the Stuart Highway which runs between Adelaide and Darwin.

One feature of our stay here in Dunmarra is the biennial Solar challenge where solar powered cars compete on an endurance race from Darwin to Adelaide. We managed to see a couple of teams stop here for a compulsory stop on the journey and have a peek at the cars. One of the teams spent the night here and set off in the morning before us.

Tomorrow will be interesting as we will be sharing the road with the Solar Car Challenge.