Rotoroa does smell a bit of bad eggs, but the mineral water is very good for your skin, and my midge bites too! Steam hisses out of the grids at the edge of the roads, and our motel was heated geothermally - the clothes drying room was always hot, as were the spa pools! Use as much hot water as you want - it doesn't matter!

 

At the New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts Institute, there were also a few geysers and hot stones. Why not?

Maori welcoming party. Quite serious and scary.

Steam blowing off the boiling hot Champagne Pool at Waiotapu Thermal Wonderland. The colours of the different pools were amazing -all different depending on what chemical the earth was giving up.
Us in a cooler thermal bath.

Bridges. I prefer mine to Judith's. Also what if the train comes?? - it's also a car bridge..

Greymouth town, next to Shantytown - an old goldmining town. We stayed at Anne's B&B shown here. She is originally from Oxford, England.
Shantytown. Judith panning for gold. She found some.

Greenlipped mussels. As tasty as they look!

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