We allowed ourselves a little lie-in today but not much as
we still had things to do on our last proper day here.
We realised we had very little food left, including milk and
so decided to pay a last visit to a supermarket, though on the way Danny
spotted Burger-Fuel which ended up being our breakfast/ lunch for the day…
whoops!
We did then go to the shop and also fuelled up the van on
the way to our next stop – the Te Puia geothermal park. This park is the most
active geothermal park in NZ and we thought we’d have a look around.
We spent about four hours here, one of which was spent
chilling on the top of a large rock waiting for three of the geysers there to
go off. We saw two of them but were holding out for the big one – the Pohutu
Geyser which did finally go off after about an hour’s wait. It was more
impressive that the other two, really because it blasts higher than them and it
was worth the wait.
We then moved on and wandered off the look at yet more
mud-pools, geysers, hot springs, and craters etc before paying a little visit
into the Kiwi House here. In the very dark room we watched a lone kiwi
rummaging, in its odd little way, for insects etc and Danny had to practically
drag Corrie away from these strange creatures she adores so much.
After Te Puia we went back to camp to make use of the free
Wi-Fi for a while before heading into town for tea. After much talk about our
budget and all the issues surrounding it we decided to have a blow-out and went
to Mac’s Steaks where we each got a three course meal of excellent quality
along with a bottle of sauv-blanc - ha!
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