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Eucott Bay Hot Springs

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September 12th (Thursday) Today was a relaxing day. After sleeping in and enjoying our morning tea we headed ashore to the hot springs. Because it was raining it was hard to know what to wear. I ended up going ashore in my bathing suit, shorts and a hoodie, and my pvc raingear and gumboots. We took a towel and stuff ashore with us in a waterproof bag. At the edge of the pool we decided that one of our waterproof bags would be for dry stuff, like the clothes that we had worn, and the other bag would be for semi-wet stuff that we didn't want to get fully wet, like our raingear.  Once ready, we stepped onto the rung of the ladder and slowly lowered ourselves into the pool until we were standing, stomach-deep in clear, fresh, hot spring water. Slowly sinking deeper and deeper, until we were up to our necks, we let out a sigh of pleasure.  The pool is constructed with the frame being giant boulders that have tumbled down from the cliffs above. They lay leaning against each...