Having spent 9 hours on a bus tour of The Bay of Plenty I decided to move here, get a home on the beach, and eat kiwi, avocados and tangelos. Yep, my new plan. Here we have a warm, dry climate with some health-taking hot springs just down the road. The countryside is lush with produce of every kind. It is just beautiful here. Because of the super fertile soil everything grows three times bigger and faster then anywhere else in the world. All along the one outer road, well traveled, you see tall shrubs/trees used as fences to protect the farms.
We enjoyed our tour guide who talked non stop about everything and anything related to New Zealand. I enjoyed the hot springs and mud holes and geysers in Rotorua. This town is THE hot bed for thermal activity. It is the norm to have these dancing steamy spurts of steam where ever you look around this area. The sulpher smell was not as bad as they told us it would be. This little resort town used what the land gave them and developed quite a nice tourist/resort area
Today was a tourist day. We saw geysers and mud pools, fish and birds, had a gondola ride, a buffet lunch, and were entertained by a Maori Kapa Haka group. Then we met some sheep friends, saw one be shirred, and then were captivated by the dogs that herd them. On the way home we pulled off the road and took pictures of kiwi..... Whew, what a day. Actually some of it was fun..... but most of it well, today was "Tourist Day".
Yes, this is one word. It means gathering place. What the Maori do is use all the words to describe something (The gathering place for the war parties of Wahiao) into one word so that in translation no one will be confused and think, for example, it is 'The gathering place for the war parties of Tucson' for example. And, yes, I bought Caelan a t-shirt because I liked the name so much...:) My kind of fun.
A bird trap in a lovely setting, the geysers and a mud pool at Whakarewarewa Thermal reserve. We were told the area is so hot that these steamy geyers can pop up in your yard overnight in which case they have to be topped off with cement. People are burried above ground here in cement....our guide told us, so they don't someday 'pop up' from under the ground..... ewwwww
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