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Beautiful drive to see a geyser which erupts every day at 10:15am with a little help from a friend.The geyser has 2 chambers,boiling water in the lower and cooler in the upper which acts as a lid.A park Ranger throws in an eco friendly detergent which decreases the surface tension of the cooler water allowing the boiling water to erupt,which it does to about 30m.The temp.is 300 degrees Celsius.
Rotorua has hot mud pools and we walked around.These are much larger than I expected.
Quite a smell of sulphur everywhere.It was all very impressive.
We then took a Gondola up a Mountain for a buffet lunch and a show by several Maoris

Hot pool

The ship then sailed to Milford Sound going between the North and South Islands.
This a beautiful area.We sailed up the fjiord and saw 2 waterfalls.Pleasure ships sail up and down.I took pictures which I'll try to get reduced and post.
One day at sea and then Wellington

written by

edoyle on February 10, 2011 from Tauranga, New Zealand

from the travel blog: World Cruise

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Hi Edna,
It sounds like you are having a wonderful time except for the heat. The pictures are beautiful. Hope you arms have recovered from Kayaking. We found out it is still winter in Holland with snow and freezing rain on Sunday (2-20) Keep the blog going so we can all travel with you. Sue Murray

written by Sue Murray on February 21, 2011

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