Rotorua - hydrothermal activity - right in the city |
Rotorua |
El Dorado for volcano-Hunters |
Everywhere is activity...... |
Whakarewarewa - Maori village in the city of Rotorua |
Whakarewarewa - Maori village in Rotorua, tourist attraction with smelly
steaming fumaroles and small craters |
Whakarewarewa |
Whakarewarewa |
lovely smell all around the city of Rotorua - Whakarewarewa |
Rotorua - North Island - New Zealand |
Whakarewarewa Maori-village - bridge over small river with the famous
penny-divers... |
Lake Rotorua with black swans |
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| Wai-O-Tapu
thermal area covers about 18 sq.km of which only a very small portion
is seen by tourists. It is a Scenic Reserve and has the largest area of
surface thermal activity of any hydrothermal system in the Taupo volcanic
Zone. Everywhere are collapsed craters, cold and hot boiling pools of
steaming fumaroles, water and mud. And the sulphur smell is present -
e-verywhere (I love it, by the way..)!! This area is associated with volcanic
activity dating back about 150.000 years with the first indications of
hydrothermal activity about 15.000 years ago... |
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small lake near Wai-O-Tapu |
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Wai-o-Tapu - thermal area - 20 km south of Rotorua - mud pools.... |
mud pools |
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Wai-O-Tapu - thermal area - 20 km south of Rotorua - Wai-O-Tapu-stream |
Wai-o-Tapu |
Wai-o-Tapu - Devil's home |
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Wai-O-Tapu |
Artists' Palette - detail taken from the boardwalk |
Wai-O-Tapu - thermal area - Opal Pool |
Artists' Palette - Champagne Pool - |
Wai-O-Tapu - Primose Terrace - largest sinter-terraces since the destruction
of the Pink and White Terraces in1886 |
Primose Terrace |
Sinter Terrace - Primose Terrace - Wai-O-Tapu |
Bridal Veil Falls - mark the end of the sinter terraces |
Wai-O-Tapu |
small lake |
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Oyster Pool - sulphurous pool |
Sulphur Cave - undisturbed cristallised native sulphur formed as hot sulphur
gases have cooled in the sheltered atmosphere of the overhanging cliffs... |
detail from the Sulphur Cave |
Frying Pan Flat - Wai-o-Tapu |
Lake Ngakoro - Wai-O-Tapu |
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Thermal wonderland Wai-O-Tapu |
Champagne Pool - formed 900 years ago by hydrothermal eruption. Contained
minerals are: gold, silver, mercury, sulphur, arsenic, thallium, antimony
etc |
Champagne Pool |
volcano scientist taking samples |
Champagne pool |
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Bird's Nest Crater - Starlings and Mynahs nest in little holes on the
crater walls. The crater's heat incubates the eggs. |
Inferno Crater |
Sulphur Cave |
Devil's Bath.... |
Mother and baby-fantail |
Devil's Bath - Panorama
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