Wai-O-Tapu Hot Pools

So, how do you get a geyser to erupt a 10:15 every morning, right on cue?  Stuff a bag of soap down the hole.  Thought everybody knew that trick!

 

You would not want to take this mud bath.   It would remove more than impurities from your skin.

This cauldron is steaming.  The smell reminded me of the stream from railway the engines of my youth. The hole is over 180 feet deep making it the worlds largest cooking pot.  It has only been here for 700 years. It might disappear tomorrow in yet another gigantic seismic shift.

The Oyster Pool, so aptly named.  The colours come from unhealthy substances like sodium and it's friends.  Whilst walking on the designated path,  a hot rock left an melted imprint in the sole my shoe.