Natural Springs by Cadgeegurup Camp

Ancient streams carving their way out from a granite outcrop. Natural spring water in this instance that needs no treatment. Water that has been filtered through stone and earth. Water that is sacred. Water where you can trace it to its source and if you listen closely, you can hear it being pushed up through layers of stone. Those deep and almost guttural sounds. Sounds that stir you up in a mystical and old way. Sounds of release, relief, nourishment and gratitude. Sounds that are the precursor to that beautiful white noise of water flowing through gullies and down streams. Such springs and waterways are usually ephemeral, they come into being during the winter rains and fade away as the weather dries up. In the first image, the water has come from a fracture spring, where the captured rainwater has travelled through the fissures, voids or weaknesses in the granite outcrop and founds its way out through a fracture at the surface level. The second image details a filtration spring or seepage, where the water has travelled down the outcrop, got caught in the soil at its base and in turn has been filtered through permeable earth where it seeps out slowly.