crikey, Bill, you get around…
I just had to look up Innot -
I specially like the ‘dig your own hole’…
but you stayed on the bridge?
Max
Innot Hot Springs
In an often quoted local export story, the hot water which bubbled out of Nettle Creek at up to 75 degrees Celsius was bottled and shipped to Europe as a health treatment over 100 years ago. Today, visitors take the waters at the Innot Hot Springs Leisure & Health Park which has six public pools, or, simply dig your own hole in the river sand of the creek bed! Innot Hot Springs is a great base for gem fossicking, fishing and bird-watching.
On Aug 10, 2016, at 21:53, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Innot Hot Springs
>
> Crossing the bridge at dusk
> when I first hear it.
>
> Lying back in the creek
> hands knees belly protruding
>
> steam lifting from water
> a full-throated chant builds
>
> from a portly brown body
> head thrown back
>
> A - oo wee aah ohh ...
> Native American perhaps
>
> or Maori. A sound
> of total acceptance.
>
> bw
> 11.8.16
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