View back across the crossing from Blue Lake

The snow capped peak in the distance is Mt. Ruapehu, the red cone belongs to Mt. Ngauruhoe (aka Mt. Doom), and the crater in the front is Mt Tongariro. The Emerald Lakes are just in front of that, and you can just make out the path of the crossing we walked along the right of Mt. Tongariro's crater coming forward across the flatter ground.

Rotorua, Tongariro and White Island

January 14th 2008
So... since our last entry we’ve done some pretty cool stuff around the North Island, all the while, still based in Whakatane with Cashy and Gary. On the 3rd we went to the Waimangu geo-thermal area near Rotorua which only came into existence after a big volcanic eruption in 1888. We spent about three hours walking around seeing various strange micro-landscapes including: boiling sulphuric lak ... read more

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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more

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