It’s quite a journey from Mount Isa to Mataranka - it took us about 3 days of driving with overnight road house stops. We are staying at Bitter Springs, just north of Mataranka.
This is an area where underground water surfaces at an amazing rate of 30 million litres a day at a temperature of 34c and is said to have its origin thousands of kilometers away in northern Queensland, emerges here and flows down to join the Roper River.
We have swum in the hot springs, the water is incredibly clear and on the sides of the creek grow paperbarks, palms and pandanus. A wonderful natural swimming pool!
If you have read the book, or seen the film, We of the Never Never, (I haven’t) the original homestead is nearby.
We leave here tomorrow for 3 days in Katherine and then a week in Darwin.
Looks lovely never read the book
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