Lorella Springs - Day 114, 31/07/2016

Today we took a drive out to Nanny's Retreat which is one of the few spring fed waterholes on the property that still has a decent amount of water in it. Its about 40km from the homestead and once we arrived at the car park it was a 1.5km walk to get to Nanny's Retreat. Its a nice little swimming hole, we were initially disappointed with it until we walked a little further and found a bigger and deeper swimming hole. We have been spoilt on this trip with some magnificent water holes and gorges and its a little bit hard not to compare them against each other. We had packed our lunch and after a swim we ate lunch and then explored a little more, Erin found a little cave that reminded us a little of Tunnel Creek and we walked through to the other side.

We all had one more final swim before walking back to the car and taking the short drive to Fern Gully and Le Spa, the drive in involves a steep little climb over a couple of rocks steps which was fun. Fern Gully was very pretty but the water was barely flowing and was starting to smell a bit like a fish tank, Le Spa on the other hand was still nice and clear and we enjoyed having another swim here before returning back to the main camp. After showers we joined the other travelers at the bar for happy hour and swapped travel stories and the different track conditions around Lorella.

Distance Traveled = 110 km
Total distance traveled with camper = 34,500 km 
Total number of nights in the camper = 246

























Nanny's Retreat



































Nanny's Cave























































































Fern Gully























Magical Thermal Spring

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