26th August - A quick sulphur bath and off to Taupo

We said goodbye to the Skydive pushing Chris at the Crash Palace (see link on side of blog) and headed off to Lake Taupo.

As we are disgustingly smelly travellers, we decided to stop on the way at Kerosene creek to have a quick dip in the naturally bath temperatured river, as it was there.

It was so nice, just the right temperature and the currents and bubbles from the mini waterfall made it the most natural jacuzzi in the world, and also the smelliest. As great as it was getting in, the fun soon evaporated as we got out much like our body heat. But we braved it and got back on the road.

Next stop was the Huka Falls, a fast flowing river that has been bottle-necked and now forms a big waterfall. It is so powerful that it is said to chuck down 62,000 gallons of water per second, strong stuff or as the Kiwis say, strong as. This is where one of the power boats comes and does its tricks in front of as well, we didn't do it as we have one to do in Queenstown.

The Prawn Park was the toilet stop of choice for us, but the 15 dollar fishing fee put us off for just one prawn. We continued on to the honey centre, I think that from this next picture you can determine why we spent an hour and a half here.

Finally was the Craters of the moon. More holes in the ground that have shed loads of steam coming out of them with boiling mud pools and thundering noises. I think it is getting a bit old hat at the moment... But still an amazing place to visit. Looks just like a Lord of the Rings set.

After that it chucked it down so we got to our hostel, watched a movie then went out to the cinema. Movie du jour was the much anticipated 'Snakes on a plane'. This is such a bad movie it is great, fantastic even. The script is so implausable that it works fine and Samuel L Jackson is as cool as ever. The death scenes are truly genius as well, go see it.

Right tomorrow is a another day, sunday I think someone said to me, perhaps. Only 2 days left of the north island to enjoy. Sadly 2 and a bit weeks till Liz has to go. But 2 and a bit weeks till the next Moto GP in Melbourne. Liz or bikes... tough choice but we all know who would win...

Laters for now

Pricey

P.S. We passed two towns of note, Uretiti and Ramarama.P.P.S. I fooled Liz into thinking a horse was dead and stuffed, she cried with laughter till it moved.P.P.P.S. Motorbikes don't cry at dead horses!