Then we went for a swim at the Mataranka Thermal pools here at the park. The water was just beautiful, it was so warm, like swimming in a bath. They advertise that it is a constant 34C but I don't know if it was quite that warm. You can go for a walk upstream and see where the water bubbles out of the ground all day, a massive 30 million litres of warm water comes out of the springs every single day. Hard to believe I know!!! We could have stayed there all day, just freezing to hop out.
Next stop was Bitter Springs. This is another warm pool but it is longer, with quite a strong current. It reminded me a bit of the drift dive at Turquoise bay at Exmouth, in that you hopped in at one spot and the current took you down stream where you hopped out at the end. The kids all got their goggles on and Cody tried to catch some fish with his bare hands, but he didn't have any luck. There was a lot of algae which was a bit gross, but great to have the goggles and snorkel on again.
After this we went to the Territory Manor and watched the Barramundi feeding. This was great. Shannae and Cody both had a go. This guy hand feed them and they had been trained so they were quite happy to be handled.
That night we decided to go and have tea a the bar. Every night they have a musician playing aussie music so that was a lot of fun.
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