We put some kilometers on Paula and Kevin’s little car this week. A visit with old friends Gary and Kaye Pollock took us to Taupo. They drove 2 hours over from Napier and met us at our hotel. We had a great catch-up with them over lunch (hadn’t seen them since a visit to their farm near Tamworth on our sabbatical in Australia, 2003). We got as far as Huka Falls with them when they got a call; their son was ill, so they had to jump in their car and head home. It was a lovely if brief visit.
After they left, we went out to Orakei Korako thermal area. A little boat took us across Lake Ohakuri and we spent the afternoon hiking through a preserve with boiling mud pools, geysers and steam huffing out of the ground. A bit sobering to think of what’s happening just under your feet. That evening, we fired up the spa and put our suits on. Jim always likes a good Jacuzzi.
We took a longer route home through Te Kuiti and Waitomo where we stopped to go through the glowworm caves. We’ve been here before, but Jim hadn’t. We think he was pretty interested in the “stars” inside the cave. It looks like the Milky Way, but just thousands of little worms working hard to catch a fly or two. No photos allowed inside; it scares the worms, so we had to settle for just our little boat as we left the cave and a few at the site, which is quite a bit more touristy than we remembered.
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