Zach made his "bedrock" this morning with his stick pillow. We left the kids with the grandparents while we did the Undara Lava Tube tour and Kalkani Crater rim walk. Undara means "long way" and the lava tubes were really interesting. It erupted 190 000 years ago and is the longest lava flow from a single volcano in the world at 160km long. The Undara Volcano poured out 1000m3 of molten lava per second. The tubes were about 35km from the crater and were cr...

Beside the caravan park is the creek which the hot springs bubble up into. Upstream it was cold, then there is a warm section followed by scalding hot water (well it felt that hot anyway but our skin came out unburnt). It is shallow and has a sandy bottom so we stayed here for a bit before going back to the pools to avoid all the hot and cold spots. We drove onto our next spot choosing to stay at Bedrock Village where the boys found a dirt mound to play in rig...