Undara

This is where we stayed the next two nights.  A railway carriage!  It was a great idea on paper but it was a bit squished.  The beds were in a tiny room together and the refrigerator was about 1/2 a kilometre away in the camp kitchen.  The area was fabulous though.  The walks and the tours were fabulous!

The lava tubes themselves are the biggest in the world.  They are certainly a lot bigger than the ones that I have walked through in northern California.  There was a story there about NASA finding markings on Mars that they said were proof of water, but this lady who had seen these tubes said;

"They could be just lava tubes"

To which NASA said;

"Lava tubes don't get that big"

And she said;

"I don't know about that.  Our lava tubes are twice that size"

NASA has since changed their findings to report lava tubes and not past river flows.

The lava tubes are enormous and they are cool places in an inferno.  At the moment too, they are wet places, with crystal clear water from the floods in January.  In fact six weeks ago one of the tubes that we waded through was chest deep and inaccessible!

Here is Levi wading through the tube.  It was just over my knees which placed it well up on Levi's thighs.  We took his shorts off and he waded like that.  He loved it!  We walked several tracks that day and was very happy to be cooled down.  Frankly my feet were numb from the moment we started wading so I can't really tell you the real temperature!  I am a baby about cold water at the best of times and even Levi who will swim in anything, was cold in this water.

Right after all that walking, Levi played at jumping in the pool.  I was a big baby and was soaking up the sun watching him!  We spent two days in Undara and then headed to the coast.  I am running several days behind in reporting because Undara was another place with zero internet.  I am trying to report in chronological order so bear with me!

This is the lava tube with water in it!