The illustration is impressive: more stuff blew out of Taupo than 10 lots of Krakatoa and Mt St Helens together, and then it happened again.
No wonder Lake Taupo is as big and deep as it is.

The first batting cage in New Zealand, and it’s only 450 kms away!

The amazingly blue pool where the wter from the geysers collects.

A steam devil not a water jet on the lake at Wai-O-Tapu.

Carbon dioxide bubbles and little stalagmites of stuff (if I said sulphur who would know different?)

Peculiar orange deposits at Wai-O-Tapu

Green acidic volcanic pool at Wai-O-Tapu, between Taupo and Rotorua

Prince of Wales Geyser justs goes on and on

Aptly called Prince of Wales Feathers Geyser at Te Puia, Rotorua