At 12.35 pm last night our air-conditioner stopped working. It could have been earlier but that's when I woke up sweating. Philip woke too and between the two of us we checked power, fuses and anything else that we could think of. Nothing would get it going again. Fortunately by this time of the night it had cooled down slightly so we managed to get back to sleep.
As soon as we woke Philip was up on the roof to see if something might be amiss with wiring to the air-conditioner. Overnight we had been invaded by Singapore Ants that are apparently everywhere in the NT and we thought that they might have been the problem but we won't know until we get to an air-conditioning specialist in Katherine. We sprayed insect spray all around the outside of the van and we now seem to be on top of them.
Today I decided to wash all the linen while we had access to a large washing machine and clothes line right beside our site and as I was waiting for the washing to finish I had a thought about the air-conditioner. Whenever you ring a technician with a problem with any product the first thing they ask you is "have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again". I asked Philip to humour me and disconnect completely from our power source, wait 1 minute, and connect to the power. It worked! Our air-conditioner is now working perfectly again. The van park owners told us when we checked in that the whole area had been having power problems with lots of brown outs and we can only presume that is what happened last night and the air-conditioner didn't like it so switched into safe mode.
We once again walked down to the springs twice today for a glide through the waters. This time we took our full face snorkel masks with us. They worked a treat and we were able to spot turtles while we quietly slipped by. The bottom of the lagoon is also quite different while looking through a mask. In the area where the turtles live there is a lot of weed that the turtles are presumably feeding on whereas other areas are more tree stumps and rocks. The bottom is also sandy in parts and other parts full of leaf litter. I just can't describe to you how crystal clear these waters are. It really is quite beautiful.
I cooked up a roast leg of lamb in the Weber for lunch today. It was the one that we bought at Boroloola. Gosh it was good and we had a craving for vegetables so I also chopped up a good selection of vegetables to roast along with the lamb. Of course I made a gravy to go with it all.
We are staying another night here at Bitter Springs and tomorrow we will go to Mataranka Springs. They tell us that they are not as natural as Bitter Springs with lots of cement seating but nonetheless they are apparently still worth a visit. I will let you know.
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