A fine day at last, but very cold. After coffee and shopping we all headed to the Redwoods where we did the treewalk, 28 walkways between 27 massive trees.
Malcolm on one of the platforms
Me, complete with beanie
Allister
After the treewalk we went to the Lakefront and walked to Ohinemutu...
...where there is a Marae...
...and a pretty church called St Faith's. It was locked so we couldn't go inside (though we've visited before). From inside this Maori Jesus appears to be walking on the waters of the lake.
St Faith's
After lunch on Eat Street we headed of to the 'Thermal Wonderland' at Wai-O-Tapu. Formed around 160,000 years ago there are boiling pools of mud, craters and steaming fumaroles. According to Wikipedia, a fumarole is an opening in a planet's crust which emits steam and gases such as carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen chloride, and hydrogen sulfide.
It took around 90 minutes to explore Wai-o-Tapu, certainly a unique landscape.
At night we went back to the Redwoods where the treewalk was illuminated. We walked around amongst and under laser lightshows and lanterns. It was surreal and amazing, well worth seeing.
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