In Katherine we went to the third hot spring (some other German travellers had recommended this one to us). Also quite nice, but we would still vote Bitter Springs #1. After some time of floundering about in the water some french guy was shouting that a snake had been seen up the spring and that we perhaps might want to leave the water. Within seconds everybody rushed out of the water. We walked up the spring and some folks were pointing at a snake in the coppice next to the water. The Australians were pretty sure it was a brown snake – you shouldn’t mess up with this one. After a while it even went into the water – pretty fast that damn thing.
Nevertheless some other people went back into the water. We went back to our car to head on to Litchfield National Park. Some older Australian couple in the car park asked for the way to the hot springs. We told them and also that there was a brown snake around shortly. Their comment: no worries, it won’t harm you.
