Sunday 20th June 2021 

Day 3 Savannah Way NT

Lorella Springs


Rest day. Its now obvious that we are not tearing off from Lorella Springs to return to the Lost City today. We will get there, but meanwhile there's 1 million acres to explore and some R&R to be had. What a find!

The playground at Lorella Springs

A very good system here where you pay for your accommodation/camp fees as you leave, just in case you decide to stay an extra night or two, or three, or four.....

Boiling the Eco billy for a relaxed breakfast in the camp ground

Found a washing machine and for $10 we could do a load. Filled up the machine with hot springs water from a big hose and left for 45’ to finish then hung the washing on the big line the middle of the camp ground.

Meanwhile pulled out the little computer and down loaded all the photos from my camera and both our iPhones. Managed to get that all done without completely flattening the battery.

Downloading pics for safe keeping. No internet to worry about blogs or anything!

While I was doing that, Roy fixed the tailgate which had jammed shut so we could access all our gear.

Packed some lunch and headed off up onto the ridge on ‘sunset walk ‘. Hot but lovely. Fabulous views over the valley in all directions. 

Valley views

Flowers, baby dragons and helicopters. Amazing geology. Great boulders everywhere even right at the top of the ridge, like marble with beautiful markings and conglomerate in places as well as micro crystalline surfaces.

The flowering gum was beautiful but too high to reach. Conveniently the birds had dropped some flowers but they had dried out in the sun.

Too high to reach but gorgeous


more views and lovely wild flowers

amazing geology

Little dragons everywhere

Small river crossing to get there and back . We had a short rest then a swim to wash off the heat and dust in the hot springs with the nibbling fish.

Beautiful warm springs

We took advantage of happy hour for a chill out and lashed out on a (pre ordered) restaurant dinner at outback prices. Very nice and well appreciated, especially as we were now rationing our stored meal/food and no supermarket within 1000km. Well maybe not that far, but a long way off both in time and distance.

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