Linds woke me about 9am and asked did I want to go for a
swim in the lake. "Eh, no" says I, “It’ll be freezing”. "But
there was steam coming off it last night" said Linds as she headed off out
the door in her swimsuit.
10 minutes later she’s back. “It’s fecking freezing! People
stopped and stared at me as I went in. The woman at reception said the steam
was just some thermal overflow pipes going into the lake and it would have only
been warm around that immediate area”. I said nothing. I checked the interweb later and the temperature for the lake was 11 degrees.
Ice cold in Taupo
The plan for today was to visit Huka Falls (the most visited
natural attraction in New Zealand suprisingly) and then Wai-o-Tapu (a thermal wonderland
apparently). We bumped into Selma and Patty in the car park of Huka Falls. They
didn’t look any happier after a nights sleep. Linds dissuaded me from teaching
them the Haka at the Huka to cheer them up.
To be honest I was a bit meh
about Huka Falls. It’s a lot of water according to the blurb but it doesn’t
look that spectacular. I think we’d been spoilt by all the other sights we’d
seen over the previous week. Make your own mind up.
On we went to Wai-o-Tapu singing ‘walking in a thermal
wonderland’ as we went. Wai-o-Tapu is Maori for ‘Sacred Waters’ and is an area
of geysers and colourful hot springs in the Taupo volcanic zone. It’s truly amazing and words can’t do it
justice. It is 'mad Ted'. Have a look.
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