Up the middle again

Dear all  

This morning we left our campsite in the very nice Bayview just outside town and headed  north towards Rotoroa. Our last visit had been shrouded by mist and drizzle so we hoped to have a short walk around today. After a short stop at Waipunga falls. Not particularly earth shatteringly beautiful, but a pretty place to stop for a break (as you can see above) we moved onto Taupo where we stopped to watch a few people bunjy jumo over the very picturesque Waikato river (nutters!). Back on the road we had a further stop at Butchers Pool near Reporoa,  a hot spring which was left to the locals by the land owner in perpetuity and they have made it a really nice pool area apart from the fact that it is full of sandflies!! We escaped and headed onto Kersene Creek nearer to Rotoroa, where the hot springs have literally created a hot creek where you can bathe in different pools - Truely magical I could have stayed in there all night. Sadly it was not to be as we had a few miles to travel yet. We finally got to Kuirau Park, where you can wander freely around the park with its steaming pools of water & bubbling mud. A quick dash up to the infamous Matamata, where we will visit Hobbiton in the morning. 

Nite all xx