Wednesday, 7 April 2010

3rd March

Camping at Lake Rerewhakaaitu
From our wonderful pitch next to the Lake we travelled for about twenty minutes back on ourselves to get to the Wai-O-Tapu Geothermal Park in time for the the Lady Know Geyser demonstration at 10am. We arrived early and had a chance to visit the park before it got really busy and too hot in the sunshine.

Green suplhurous waters
The Champagne Pools - fizzing bubbles of carbon dioxide

The steam over the water


Brief twister

The geothermal site was amazing - everywhere you put your feet was hot and smelled of sulphur - very surreal but enjoyable. We stayed for a very long time before heading off towards the Northern coast and a place called Mount Maunganui, not far from Tauranga.

We booked ourselves for a dolphin tour at the tourist office which would leave early the next morning and found a camp site right next to the sea.


 Quick jaunt up Mount Maunganui before dinner


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