taupo – day 7

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we were up early on saturday to get to Orakei Korako for just after 9am

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it’s a natural geothermal amazing place which you have to get a boat across a lake to reach

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there was of course lots of sulphurous steam

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and amazing colours (some organic)

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and various geysers were going off as we walked round.  this is still a ‘live’ area and features regularly change such as geysers which haven’t erupted for decades suddenly start up!

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and of course there was some gloopy bubbly mud

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and some nice sunlight through steam

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the walk was about 2 hours hours then we got the boat back to the car

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we had lunch in an award winning art cafe

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after that we drove over to the posh area of acacia bay overlooking lake taupo

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we sat there so long the sailing ship we caught earlier in the week came by

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with a lot more people on it than there was for us

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and finally we headed in to town to visit the taupo museum and go to a gypsy fair

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this singer was dreadful and was singing about having a weepy eye!

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he had no audience, but was happy for me to take a few pictures

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then it was back to the holiday house to start packing for heading home

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and i’ve already posted day 8 of the trip so that’s all the holiday snaps posted

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here’s a lady with a dramatic side boob from the holiday house.