Middle Earth

We are now staying by the crater of the most recent significant volanco expolsion in the last 5000 yrs. Lake Taupo is huge and surrounded by a variety of geothermal activity. Garry is in his element! We are camping at a thermal spa resort on the edge of Taupo. We have seen mud pools, steaming craters, geysers and natural spa pools by the side of the road.

In Rotorua we cooked a hangi for 2 nights - food cooked in natural steam and soaked in the campsites natrual spa pools until we were satisfactorily pruned. In Waitomo we went blackwater rafting - travelling through a cave on a rubber ring. Glow worms were amazing!

The first photo is of Cathedral Cove, Coromadel. (The waves were so strong here that garry cut his lip open after being thrown to the bottom of the ocean and I grazed my knee.) The secondis of a natural spa pool in Rotaroa.