Australian-Geographic-Magazine-September-Octobe..

Springs eternal.

Ranger Barry Lyon

(right, at left) points

out the direction of

the waterfl ow at

Bluebottle Springs.

With him are Marc

Leblanc, Bindi, Terri

and Robert Irwin.

Distinctive Kennedy

palms (below) defi ne

the riparian corridor

along the Wenlock’s

lower reaches.

Red gold. The special hydro-

logical properties of bauxite

(above) have created a series

of perennial springs that

sustain green oases among

an otherwise arid savannah

landscape (left).

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