Point Stuart (NT)

We spent a few night there in July 2004.
Yes it is a tourist venture but when we were there it was pretty low key.
Nice young people running it.
Best steak I have had anywhere.
Assuming it was local meat I was astounded to find it came from King Island!!!
What I assume were the workers dormitory's have been turned into reasonable accommodation and there was a van park, albeit very few trees.
Being so close to the major fishing area's obviously helps a lot but we would definitely go there again.
I have friends that have stayed there as their base on more than one time.
M.

I used to stay there when I was fishing Shady Camp with a guide called John Dagan . After we got sick of that we would go over to Carmour Plains and blast a few pigs for the chiller .

Pt Stewart was a great place with that big swimming pool . I have no idea what it's like now - backpackers paradise maybe ?

Willie .

blast a few pigs... now you are talking

You've probably already done this, but just google "Point Stuart" and you will find the site telling you all about it.

We were there in 2000 and it was a pretty laid back (reminded me of an African Safari) type club.

We went further on trying to get to the actual Point Stuart but the road was blocked by the gate into Carmor Plains. We met one of the owners and got talking...a few years earlier we'd met one of the daughters at the Broome cattle saleyards. Anyway, the young man at Carmor asked us up to the station but we thought we'd be imposing and didn't go. We camped at Shady Camp instead. I wish now that we'd taken him up on his offer because now it, too, is a Wilderness Reserve Resort with boar and buffalo hunting plus photography tours. All good, but would've been nice to see it as a working cattle property first.

Viv

Viv

Rick
I used to work for DPI in Adelaide and visited the Pt Stuart and Mudginberri meatworks for a few days in 1979 and again in 1982 to see how the meat inspectors were faring. One of my most vivid memories of Pt Stuart during my visit in 82 was a visit one day by the Darwin RAAF personnel to play a cricket match against the meatworkers. The 'oval' was located somewhere in the middle of the Carmour plains and the sight of the stumps set up in the middle of a perhaps 10 square mile cricket pitch was amazing. Of course the RAAF, and the meatworkers, came supplied copious quantities of beer (read a semi-trailer load)and there was a huge hungi of barra, chicken, etc cooked over hot rocks and covered in banana leaves - a top day. I dont think anyone would remember the cricket result.
I drove into Pt Stuart last July during a Kakadu trip but did not stay there or go into the 'resort' buildings. I didnt think the place looked as good as it did as a meatworks, but perhaps I was looking through rose coloured glasses before. The old meatworks building is still there, unoccupied. The resort looked a bit ordinary, but I am sure the best part of staying there is the fishing etc.
The roads in to Pt Stuart and Shady Camp is good - 2WD and Vans OK. Judging by the stink of the rubbish bins at Shady Camp there is still a lot of barra about, and we also saw about 20 crocs within 500 metres of the barrage.
cheers, Dalb