Late in the afternoon the day we arrived at Bitter Springs we went for a walk down to the springs and the surrounding vegetation. The area is very lush and pretty. The springs themselves are small but have been set up with areas where you can view the bottom if you choose not to swim. Apparently there are turtles on the bottom. The most noticeable things about the area is that the vegetation has not been degenerated by the sheer number of people who overrun the Mataranka thermal area and it has no fruit bats, hence no stench. Personally we were put off by the amount of algae along the edges of the springs themselves. That did not deter anyone else but us. When we went through Mataranka in 1990 it was smelly but lush and beautiful. When we went through in 2004 it was looking sparse and was very smelly. We choose not to visit this time. We walked around Bitter Springs for about an hour taking photos before wandering back to our van. On the way we passed an Ibis which was standing in a tree, obviously there were people in his pool!
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