Jul 16, 2008, 11:37am »
The waterfall pool is where I swam against the current for 45 minutes this morning in a pile of effervescent bubbles, LOL, trying to not let the waterfall entering the pool, push me down stream nor grab me in it's pull and duck me under water, LOL, I won, this time, sometimes you can get caught into it's pull.Wow, it was a work out.  Then I took the high walk back from the hot springs, along the spring itself, the part not safe to swim in,  to look at the place where the spring emerges from the ground through a crack in the earths rocky crust above the underground inland sea.

A glimpse of the Katherine River from high up on the embankment, it's a steep walk down to the Katherine Hot Springs, LOL, steeper walk back, get me a tad out of breath, great 10 mins each way exercise at a bisque pace.

The first entry point to the Katherine hot springs showing the wheel chair entry ramp and the gentle current quite area where the gray nomads gather and exchange travel talk around the edges of the warm water and usually complain that the water is only warm not hot. LOL, but for exercisers like me, the water is a perfect temperature.

 I usually enter at the seniors end, swim downstream to above the waterfall, climb out and then get back in at the rapids pool at the base of the small falls. I do some formal exercise routines, many of them variations of ballet bar work, while holding on to a rail I always add these formal exercises to every session I do in water. This up stream against the current work out must be fantastic for my arms and chest , I did mention yesterday that my lung congestion issues were near gone , well this has to be the best ever workout for lungs and in the humid steamy atmosphere of a warm natural mineral spa, how healthy is that? . LOL, nature is a wonderful healer when we use her resources.

LOL, I would love to go see the physician who told me about five years ago, he thought I needed a heart lung transplant and I would challenge him to an upstream, against the rapids swim.

The other thing that neither Reg nor I understand is how come our arm movements in the water do not cause us pain the following day when so many other things we do cause us arthritis pain. LOL,

Can you tell I love the water , ? I am tired after that effort but not as much as I was yesterday and I worked harder today, the water does make me stronger :-).