Day 57 Mataranka Homestead "But the people come, the people pay, they pay to watch me every day, as I jump through my hoop of fire....." The circus came to town today..... We had a sleep in this morning... Up by 8am and ready for another hectic day of relaxing in the thermal pools. We first went for a drive into town to the Mataranka Markets - wow there were 4 tables of 'stuff' - on our way over to the other side of town to watch some Barramundi feeding. The...

Day 56 Batchelor - Pine Creek - Mataranka "I've gone a bit country since I met you, baby, I used to be so rock n roll...." Ahhh Mataranka and your thermal pools! The kids have been hanging for today - why - because we get to go to Mataranka for a couple of nights. That means lying about in the 32 degree thermal pools for most of the day and live bands at night at the homestead! We left Batchelor about 7.45 ready for our drive South. We stopped at Pine Creek ...