On our first full morning in Rotorua (the "Maori capital of New Zealand") we drove out of town to a thermal site where our admission entitled us to see a primed geyser (primed with chemicals to erupt at 10:15 a.m. each morning), mud pots, and lots of colored pools with boiling hot water and lots of steam.There were three different loop walks to see the thermal activity, so we took all three loops in the span of almost two hours. Very interesting! And it did feel like we were in Yellowstone NP! (The picture right below is the ranger who gave a brief talk about the geyser prior to his action of "priming the pump.")
On our walk we saw lots of different colors -- especially blues and greens -- on a very nice day for being outdoors. The mud pots reminded me a lot of Yellowstone -- with the bubbling, hot mud occasionally popping-up in the air.
After spending a couple hours on site, we bought a couple of soft drinks at the cafe and had our lunch on a very nice picnic table with "munchies" purchased earlier at a grocery story. Our afternoon "plan" included a walk through a redwood forest right close to our B&B. Then, on the 27th we'll drive out to Peter Jackson's "Hobbiton" and take-in a bit more of downtown Rotorua. - rw
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