Lady Knox didn't live up to her name entiely. Started off all aloof with a little smoke but given some soap and and an audience she ended up all bubbly and spouting off - typical really! Apparently, the soap is a surfactant which breaks down a surface tension barrier between two pockets of water - hot and cold. In so doing, the pressure is released and the gueyser goes off. Apparently Lady Knox has been soaped since the 1930's - that's got to be longer than Ramsey Street?!At the park there was also the artists pallete and devils pools. Some bizarre and amazing scenery. Colourful and warm while at the same time very smelly in places and thoroughly entertaining. On the way out we stopped at the mud pools. J9 took some awesome photographs. We also bumped into a 'Kiwi' from Chester-Le-Street. Reckons we'd get jobs here ok!
We continued on toward Taupo but were sidetracked by Shawn the Prawn. A set of pools where a geothermal power station discharges warm water into pools. You are equipped with f
inely diced steaks and a cane with some fish line and hook attached. The rest should be easy. In the end, J9 was the Prawn Star and caught five - I mustered a paultry two. I also took the prize for most pathetic male and was chastised by a six year old girl for not unhooking the prawn like a man. I was trying to be humane! So I shrieked and squealed like a girl - so what!
inely diced steaks and a cane with some fish line and hook attached. The rest should be easy. In the end, J9 was the Prawn Star and caught five - I mustered a paultry two. I also took the prize for most pathetic male and was chastised by a six year old girl for not unhooking the prawn like a man. I was trying to be humane! So I shrieked and squealed like a girl - so what!Having had so much fun, and burnt J9's wrist in the sun, we headed on towards Napier. It meant we couldn't stop at Lake Taupo. We would if we could. It looked great and there's loads to do. Instead we left the Thermal Explorers Highway and went through some fairly mundane straight roads (which in NZ terms are a novelty) through working forestry. We soon left this behind and had some stunning mountain scenery. It's genuinely breathtaking at times. J9 managed to get a shot of a rainbow at our level. Yes - it was raining agin. We seem to have been lucky so far and got the rain in the car (not literally)...hoping that continues.
Tony and Sheila had done the prawn fishing so it seems only fair we stay in the same Motel - At The Rocks. Very nice. Short walk from West Quay, where we had ane excellent dinner. No Monteith's in the offing so I resorted to Speight's. Tried around five types and confirmed that even the tasty ones are a little too cold and rather too gassy! I could get away with it in Rotarua...
Tomorrow (Saturday) has a wine tour in store - and, prior to that we hope to see Art Deco Napier and visit a bead shop. Should be a good day!
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