my first visitor!
I've been a bit slack lately about putting pics up on this site - mostly because I've been off doing fun things and enjoying myself. The weekend before last, I had my first visitor - my dad. He stayed with me for about a week which included one very action packed weekend. On saturday, we went to the Wai-O-Tapu geothermal doodad a bit south of Rotorua. We got up early (arghh, not on a Saturday!) in time to catch the Lady Knox Geyser which explodes every morning at 10:15.....
Weird for nature to be so precise, I thought, and how does it take daylight saving into account? Well, turns out, the eruption of the geyser is helped along a bit by some laundry soap..... But despite being a bit of a gimic, it is really quite impressive, shooting 20m or so into the air!
The rest of the Wai-O-Tapu park is quite different to the bubbling mud parks I've been to previously. This one isn't about bubbling mud and massive steam vents, instead it's full of brightly coloured lakes - coloured due to the different ions in them. There are some awesome colours - fluro green, orange, yellow, pinkish, blue. So, although there's not much in the way of cool bubbling mud, I think it is one of the better geothermal parks I've been too.
One of the coolest bits, probably everyone's favourite, was the champagne pool which is green, with orange rock around the edge and heaps of little tiny bubbles popping up to the surface - bit like champagne really...
On Sunday, dad and I went to the beach - something I've been wanting to do for ages. We went to Mt Manganui - a beach-side town in ithe Bay of Plenty with a big mountain on a peninsula at the end. It was a bit cold and overcast, so no swimming, but we had lunch and walked around the base of the mountain (a good hour walk).
We even managed to fit in a stop at Te Puke, the kiwi growing capital of NZ to see the big kiwi...
Weird for nature to be so precise, I thought, and how does it take daylight saving into account? Well, turns out, the eruption of the geyser is helped along a bit by some laundry soap..... But despite being a bit of a gimic, it is really quite impressive, shooting 20m or so into the air!
The rest of the Wai-O-Tapu park is quite different to the bubbling mud parks I've been to previously. This one isn't about bubbling mud and massive steam vents, instead it's full of brightly coloured lakes - coloured due to the different ions in them. There are some awesome colours - fluro green, orange, yellow, pinkish, blue. So, although there's not much in the way of cool bubbling mud, I think it is one of the better geothermal parks I've been too.
One of the coolest bits, probably everyone's favourite, was the champagne pool which is green, with orange rock around the edge and heaps of little tiny bubbles popping up to the surface - bit like champagne really...
On Sunday, dad and I went to the beach - something I've been wanting to do for ages. We went to Mt Manganui - a beach-side town in ithe Bay of Plenty with a big mountain on a peninsula at the end. It was a bit cold and overcast, so no swimming, but we had lunch and walked around the base of the mountain (a good hour walk).
We even managed to fit in a stop at Te Puke, the kiwi growing capital of NZ to see the big kiwi...
posted by anna at 9:55 am
1 Comments:
Wow, it all looks amazing. And you have had a haircut! Noice!
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