easter holiday day 8 – back to the wood and the museum

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we had a great idea for our last full day in rotorua – we got up early, went back to the Redwoods forest and did a big stomping 2 hour hilly walk before breakfast.  this was the view we were greeting with after climbing a big hill.  we sat here and ate our tim tams. Tim Tams are chocolate biscuits named after a horse that won the Kentucky Derby in 1958.  interesting hey ?

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from our biscuit paradise we viewed te puia which we’d visited earlier in the week.  the picture above is of the seats where i overheated my bott, and where the geysers pop out.  neither geyser is going in this picture as it made the picture too steamy.

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here’s another ponga. and here’s my well earned breakfast

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now, new zealand has a really cool thing.  artists paint the street boxes (you know, those green metal boxed you see all over the place).  i don’t know whether it’s an official thing or not.  i tried to ask this chap but he had his headphones on.  we drove past later in the day and he’s progressed this picture really nicely.

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after our brunch (the walk took a little longer than expected) we went to the Rotorua museum.  you weren’t allowed to take pictures of the statues, so here’s a shadow instead.

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it’s a really interesting museum set in an old spa/hospital type thing where people used to go and receive the waters. some of them also got electric shocks and other strange treatments.  ultra violet rays for baldness for example.

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here’s a book about a popular mannikin.  there was also an excellent mirror science exhibition thing which we played in for ages.  i’ll post those photos separately.

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after that we went and did a spot of crazy golfing.

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it was quite a small course and had lots of mice running round which wasn’t too pleasant.

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but it was all jolly good.