Some like it hot

With temperatures reaching 40 degrees and humidity hitting 80% Selina has understandably taken me to three hot springs in the last 24 hours. You might be familiar with hot springs in countries where steam comes off the springs as it hits the cold air! Not in Aus! Here the water tends to be COOLER than the air temp!! But crikey they are fun!

Last night we settled into our campsite in Katherine, then trundled off to the local hot spring. After a lot of bad navigation by me (I blame the poor local map quality!) we got to the springs just before dark, after watching the most amazing sight of something like 100,000 flying fox bats flying up the river at sunset, wow!! We ended up sharing our "tub" with a couple of true ozzies in their late 20s. It was really interesting getting their perspective on current life and relations with local Aboriginies over a couple of tinnies.

Today we went 100km south to visit some truly natural springs. We swam in a lazy river in Bitter Springs which was surrounded by green slime (algae) which was hard to avoid, then we went on to Mataranka Thermal Springs which had translucent blue water:

We're now ready for the wonders of some national parks that are meant to be open and then on to Darwin. We are hearing of a category 2 cyclone heading our way, but hopefully it will have calmed down by the time it reaches us and not impact us.