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| Waiotapu | |
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| Forest and trees along the highway between Taupo and Waiotapu with a single isolated cooling tower looking almost out of place - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Cattle grazing in front of a spectacular backdrop (left); the Reporoa Dairy Factory (right). Many of these plants are Chinese enterprises - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Waiotapu thermal area with its boiling mud pools makes a spectacular contrast with Craters of the Moon - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Steam rising from boiling mud pools at Waiotapu - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Lady Knox Geyser is induced to shoot water and steam up over 60 feet into the air every morning at 10:15 - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| The Geyser can however be somewhat temperamental and may require more than one addition of surfactant - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Nearby is Wa-o-tapu Thermal Wonderland - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Steam escaping from one of the many fumaroles at Wai-o-tapu Wonderland - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| The Champagne Pool is a spring which gives credence to the claim that Wai-o-tapu is New Zealand's most colourful geothermal area - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| The ochre petrified edge of the steaming Champagne Pool which is over 65 metres in diameter and over 60 metres deep - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Beyond the Champagne Pool, past the Sulphur Cave is the Devil's Bath, which, depending on the reflected light from cloud cover, changes colour from green to yellow - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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