Waiwera Thermal fun! Walked around Auckland and in the evening got picked up by Paul, director of Auckland architect practice. He took me along with his family to the Waiwera Infinity Thermal Spa Resort, a hot spring thermal park about an hour north of Auckland. With Paul and his kids, Nel, Rubin and family friends. The thermal resort is pretty big with warm water coming up from 1500m deep in the earth and channelled to create 19 pools. There's even a hot water pool cinema and loads of really cool slides. Was raining but that doesn't matter when you're bathing in natural hot pools one of which was 65 degrees. The rain actually added to the experience. Great fun evening. Hot pools and good craic messing about on the slides. Great to spend a day in
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