Left Cooinda around 10.30 and headed off to Katherine and arrived just after lunch. We had heard about the hot springs on the Katherine River so after we settled in we walked out the back gate of the caravan park and down to the springs. You should have seen the mud everywhere from the enormous of water that had been through here, I forgot the camera so I didn’t get any photos. The water must have been 20 or 30 feet above the normal height and with that everything had been awash with trees, mud and sand. In 1998 the whole town went under, the railway bridge is so far above the river it is not funny yet the water was around 1 ½ metres above the bridge. When you walk through Woolworths in the main street knowing that the water was up to the ceiling it makes you wonder how the town survived. They were hit with yet another flood in 2006 but not to the same levels. They had started sandbagging shops when the river rose again earlier this year.
The spring had been cleaned and is obviously a popular place for people to come to on a hot spring day..... There were quite a few people swimming and the water was a constant 32 degrees. I found out later that the water that comes to the surface here comes all the way from the Cutta Cutta caves.
Back to the van for a quiet evening and some planning for our next 2 days in Katherine.
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