HOBBITON - Matamata
HOBBITON - Matamata
off for a wander...
blue lake
on the phone to mum...
7 am
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Rotorua views & Hobbiton entrance...
HOBBITON - Matamata off for a wander... blue lake on the phone to mum... 7 am
Zorbing - Rotorua, November 2006
we still havn't done this but went and watched a while...
Liquid-zorbing - downhill roller coaster ride
Two or three buckets of water are added to the mix
You remain unattached to the inner ball like a loose cannon tumbling out of control
Skyrides/Luging, Rotorua Nov06
The Luge is a fun ride on a 3 wheel cart.
Travel as fast as you dare.
Tracks wind down through the redwood trees.
Tracks wind down through the redwood trees.
coming down....
oooo U G L Y
panoramic lake Rotorua
Thermal - Rotorua 2006
Rotorua where the landscape is dotted with thermal vents and bubbling mud. The whole town,
even the golf course is pockmarked with holes with steam coming out.
What happens if your ball goes in there?
The entire area smells like sulphur — the town, the golf course, the motel, everywhere.
Driving down the highways you look over at the side of the road and there’s steam coming out of the ground.
A geyser starts to rise in one of the volcanic areas
which means almost anywhere in Rotorua.
which means almost anywhere in Rotorua.
A geyser starts to rise in one of the volcanic areas
which means almost anywhere in Rotorua.
Lake Tarawera, Rotorua, November 2006
During the night of 9th June 1886, after a series of constant quakes since midnight, a violent eruption occurred near the township of Rotorua.
The top of nearby Mount Wahanga was completely blown off, producing a dense black cloud extending from Taheke to Paeroa, and which became a mass of thunder and lightening to continue incessantly the night long.
Shortly after, nearby Mount Tarawera and its twin cone Ruawahia exploded into action, belching fire.
Lava and rocks were spewed to a height of around 10.000 feet.
The rift caused by the eruption extended for an area approximately 12 miles in length. Hot rocks and mud from nearby Lake Rotomahana rained over an area of 6.000 square miles.
The explosions, lasting practically the whole night long, were heard and as far away as Auckland, Napier, Wellington and even Bleinhem, in the South Island.
In some towns it was at first thought that a naval vessel had gone aground and was signaling for help.
The nearby town of Wairoa, in the vicinity of the eruption, was covered ten feet thick with ashes, clay mud and stone.
The only hint of disaster which the Wairoa residents had experienced in advance was a tidal wave which happened on Lake Tarawera two weeks beforehand, two feet high.
However, the local Māori had predicted the eruption.
Flax had not flowered the season before, and the Māori predicted a dry summer accompanied by a large earthquake for the current year.
The Māori village of Te Wairoa, its Pa and whares were completely buried in the fallout of mud ash and rocks.
The Māori village of Te Wairoa, its Pa and whares were completely buried in the fallout of mud ash and rocks.
Today Te Wairoa is known as The Buried Village.
153 Māori and Europeans perished in the Mount Tarawera eruption, that fateful night of 1886.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
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