28/4/16
We were travelling through the vast areas of the Australian
outback, which requires some long distance driving between highlights with
little to see between.
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| Old wind mill |
We had become somewhat unaccustomed to the requirement
of long stretches of driving and both found driving tiring where we found
ourselves regularly changing drivers and stopping a couple of times a day for a
power nap. A typical example when we left Banka Banka we only lasted 27 minutes
before we both decided we had already had enough driving for the day.
Eventually we made it to Daly Waters Pub which was a
ramshackle sort of place abuzz with lots of people.
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| Daly Waters Pub without bra or undies donations from me |
It felt a bit too crowded
for us and we continued driving for a little while till we found a quiet spot
off the side of the road for the night. We do enjoy time by ourselves which we
are not expecting to experience that often the further north we get.
Our next stopover was at Mataranka where we stayed in a
caravan park next to the Elsey National Park with its main attraction the
Mataranka Thermal Pool, about 150 metre walk from our caravan site. The air
temperature was about 33 C with the water temperature at 34 C, it was a
beautiful setting and we immersed our bodies for 1 ½ hours the first day. We
got out of the water with wrinkly clean bodies. All the ground in dirt that we
had been trekking through over the last few weeks had disappeared.
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| Mataranka Thermal Pool |
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| It felt every bit as good as it looked |
There was no smell or oily feel to the water which appeared
to be crystal clear. It was truly a delightful experience.
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