favourite "pub in the scrub"

I am partial to the Lappa Pub also known as the Espanol, NO BEER, BYO. That is worth it just to say you've been to a pub with no beer. The character of the place is amazing. Check it out sometime. I am about to write a story on it for a magazine, if it gets published I'll let you all know which mag.

What about the Agnew Hotel, although old Tom must be dead by now.

The Lion's Den just south of Cooktown on the road from the Bloomfield River. A few hundred yards up the road was Wilma's Country Kitchen that made a great burger.

Well that's the way it was ten years ago. Is it still the same?

Swan Reach Pub on the Tambo River in Gippsland, Vic. Tie your hired cruise boat up to the jetty, walk 100 yards to the pub, blow the froth off a few and get stuck into the best $10 steak or $7 roast you'll eat.

Cheers,

Jim.

William Creek hotel on the Oodnadatta Track. You can watch the planes landing in the main street right next to you.

Mungerannie - sh1tload of history and character!

The beers' always cold at the Marvel Loch pub. . . . . the lights are off a lot of the time, but the beers' cold! The Dargo pub is another good watering hole, as is the Conargo Pub, everybody's been there haven't they?

Not in the bush but I had to list it, and now gone I believe but the Eimeo pub in Eimeo (Mackay). Pub was a ramshackle joint we called it The Grime but what a location!

Same area...the Eungella Chalet....I want that place!

Davoe,

I too would have to go the William Creek Pub.

We uaslly only stay one night at William Creek, but on the last trip the road was closed for 2 days.

You can only walk around town so much, so the pub was the meeting place.

International cricket was played out side with the overseas vistors and when we had a break for drinks play was stopped for the day.

The kids played pool all day while the others just sat around and talked. I even tryed to teach a young German bloke to say G' Day.

The backpakers had a ball , playing all sorts of drinking games, but paid for it the next day.

The pub had plenty of beer and food but was running short of cigarettes, Alpine Lights were the only pack left on the shelf until someone got real desperate.

On the second night at William Creek, Eliza, my 11yo daughter,and I were the last to leave the pub that night and Eliza asked if she could be kicked out of the pub. John the barman was only to happy to do the honours. This was what she told all her friends when she returned to school and to her mother the next time she was on the phone.

William Creek might not be very big but it sure has a great pub.

Wayne

I enjoyed the Daly Waters Pub, esp the Chook Man, the William Creek Pub was great too....

Lyn

G"day Davoe,

dippin' me lid to you for posting this one....

I romaniticise (spelling?) and think of the Gibson Soak, the Wyndham opposite Captn Rob's, the Last Chance in Sth Hedland, those magnificent sessions in the beer garden at the Pier Hotel in Hedland, the Premier in Pinjarra, etc. etc.....

It may be a bit cliched but the Birdsville Hotel is an icon, and a great place to be. Can't go past the seven course luncheon ;-)
Or the Toompine Hotel, or the pub at Ilfracombe, or the Green Room at the Darwin Hotel (gone now).

Most Unusual Ive seen - Cracow Pub - Cracow is famous as a a real ghost town not far from Isla Gorge in Central Qld- all the buildings and shops except the pub are deserted - a few people still live nearby - great pub heaps of memorabilia - Ted Brophy (The guy who ran the Touring Boxing troupe) got this place up and running by having his shows there, changed hands now though - people now come from miles around.

Amazing atmosphere -

Woods Point Hotel. Great place.

Agree about Daly Waters, a must see and stay the night if poss. Surprised no one's mentioned the Iron Clad at Marble Bar with its unique structure of tin, curtains over non-existent windows etc and (my experience) being brought a jug of milk when I had in fact asked for the bill for the meal we'd just eaten.
Des

Two nominations:

1. Cradock Hotel, a.k.a. Heartbreak Hotel, just south of Hawker in SA. Top tucker & good barman/owner, Dave. Good accomodation off a lovely, old style courtyard., If you need redemption, one of the few other buildings in 'town' is St Gabriels cathedral. The Cradock Hotel is a quieter, less up-beat/hyped version of the famous Prarie Hotel at Parachilna, in the Flinders Ranges. Now a new sealed road runs past to Hawker via Orroroo. For mine, a much better route from south to the Flinders.

2. Leigh Creek Hotel at Copley, Flinders Ranges. Old two storied building, very similar to the Marree Hotel, but with a nice beer garden out the back. Only metres off the 'beaten track' but it has something about it. And you can watch AFL in the front bar- proof of civilisation!

MUNGERANNIE BOTTLO for me' John'os a top bloke been there twice ca'nt bet the pool down by the creek cheer's GREENDOG

The Jennacubine Tavern between Northam and Goomalling in WA is a top bush pub. Very good food and friendly atmosphere.

Davoe,

First off, 2 now departed "souls", Frewena and Barry's Caves Roadhouses, along the Barkly Highway. Both replaced by the "Bark Hut'(Barkly Roadhouse). Had some good times there years ago. And a few hangovers...

Agree with Bob, Birdsville Pub, been there by 'plane, & 4wd. And from one trip there last year, Mungerannie.

Tatts Pub in Winton, a feed and drink out on footpath, and watch the world....well, Winton, go by.

Used to be a place in Elliott NT, where you get a "maggot bag"(meat pie), and a pie 'n sauce was a "haemorrhaging maggot- bag". Don't know whether he sold too many, using that description!

Hooroo...

Whim Creek Hotel - a true oasis in the desert and a North-West icon.

Absolutely crap hospitality and they'll charge you a small fortune for a beer but it's worth it !