Boiling mud pools

Trip Start Feb 13, 2008
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Trip End Apr 05, 2008


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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

We dashed from the Coromandel Peninsula to the Blue Lake, about six miles from Rotorua.    For the record, we travelled 3000 km in Carole the Camper van!    We stayed two nights at this very nice Top Ten site and one thing having a van, you do notice the sky  as you make your way to the block last thing at night.  The stars were really bright and one evening whilst we were at Kaikoura we chanced upon a young man called Adam from Barnstaple and he told us all about them.   Anyway, we raced to see the geysers and mudpools and the Lady Knox geyser blowing her top at 10.15 precisely.  She does this every day as they pop a bag of detergent into the crater, she then bubbles for a few moments and then spurts foam and water about twenty feet into the air. Quite a spectacle.     We saw some bubbling, glugging mud pools and sometimes it looked as if little faces were popping up and then plopping down again.     In the afternoon, we found our way to Waiteke, a stream of boiling water which has been diverted into thermal pools.   We soaked in these for an hour or so and it was one of the nicest thermal springs we have visited.     We followed their eco trail and found the source of the springs - it was a pool of frothing boiling water with steam rising some fifteen feet into the air.   I couldn't help thinking that nothing would survive in that boiling cauldron, although some of the mosses and ferns seem to thrive on it.
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