A great walk, and some way too hot, hot pools

We woke up cold and damp, so headed straight off. We made our way to the Tongariro Park, even though the weather was grey it wasn’t raining, and in need of some activity we decided rain or not we should do a walk.

Silica Rapids

The main crossing (20km) was closed due to the weather, so we would have to miss that one. We did go on a nice walk though, up to Silica Rapids, around 7.5kms (2hrs).

Chris on the bridge

A bit hot and bothered from the climb

It was a very muddy walk

It managed to stay

Chris in the hot pools

dry until about 30mins before we got back. A nice walk with some great scenery and amazing gold and yellow rivers, due to the Minerals in the water. After this we made our way to a nice paid camp in Tokaanu, it had free hot Mineral pools. We had a lovely dip in the supposedly therapeutic waters before Chris got too hot and had to get out. There was a serious storm hitting the North Island with winds reaching 150kmph in the night so we huddled up in our car to ride it out.

A great walk, and some way too hot, hot pools

Tokaanu, New Zealand