Tenant Creek

Tenant Creek was a goldrush town and was 1of 15 repeater stations for the overland telegraph in 1872 and was opened by Charles Todd. A store and hotel was built in 1932 just prior to the goldrush where there were 200 mines for gold and copper.

The telegraph station is a lovely old  building made of thick rock from the surrounding area with a large verandah all the way around. It has outbuildings for meat storage, living quarters and blacksmith and stables.
Today Tenant Creek is the town centre for vast open grass palins, scatterred cattle stations, mines and aboriginal communities.
We had dinner at the memorial club which has a courtesy bus to transport patrons to and from the club every 1/2 hr, this is to prevent patrons from being harassed by aboriginals for money and alcohol. Patrons have to swipe their membershipn card to gain entry and non-members have their drivers licence scanned to check for a criminal background and if necessary you may be refused entry.
Our caraven park was in the main street and as the aboriginals made their way home to their settlement they were loud and verbally abusive to each other.