Driving into Moree it s hard not to think of the place as one huge, somewhat leaky, pressure cooker. There s scarcely a hotel or motel here that doesn t advertise a pool or hot tub fed by the mineral-rich natural springs that bubble up from the Great Artesian Basin below.
We are following the Great Artesian Drive, a peregrination around northern NSW that takes in many of the spots where these natural springs splurge to the surface.
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We ve already checked out Pilliga Bore and the one at lonely Burren Junction, but Moree is the first place we ve hit that takes this natural phenomenon and runs with it. Pilliga is a simple square pool just outside the tiny town itself while Burren Junction is essentially a petri dish in which float revolting, mouldy globules of what I can only assume is the effluvium of some alien life form.