We only had a short drive to Mataranka today. On the way we stopped at a place for morning tea. It was a funny place and the owner was a character who’s name was Fran. When we got to Mataranka we set up camp in a caravan park near Bitter Springs. It is a nice caravan park. They grow mangoes at the place we are staying and they gave us a taste of dried mango. It was quite yummy. Once we were set up we walked down to the Bitter Springs thermal waters. It was fantastically warm and very natural. We hired some noodles. On our noodles we just floated down the springs. On the way down the springs there were lots of spiders, they were really big, we are not sure what they were but they were cool! If you look closely in the photo, you might be able to see one. It takes about fifteen minutes for the gentle current to take us to some steps where we have to get out. It is a very quick walk back to the start to do it all again. It is fun! We did that a couple of times before we came back to the van and had dinner. Now that we have crossed the tropic of Capricorn the weather is a lot more tropical and warm. It has reached high 20s!
Tara