Taupo day

Today is our last day in the "Stinky City" and as we wandered down for breakfast past all the Cafe's with the breakfast aroma of coffee and pastry's mixing in with the sulphur,it kinda puts you in the mood for some......eggs.

Called into one of our favourite Cafe's in Rotorua.
"Relish Cafe" 1149 Tutanekai St 07-343 9195
Mum had Fruit toast, Dad and I had the Bacon and Eggs on toast, and that left.... Pancakes (Yes Keiko decided that a treat was in order......little it was not.......as the staff brought it out I could have sworn that I heared the sound of reversing horn from the fork hoist....BIG pancakes!!!

After all of that we headed South to Lake Taupo (Taupo nui a tia)

OK Te reo time,to pronounce Taupo correctly start with holding/pointing to your big toe..."Toe" say it,"Toe".... Next what is the foot part of a cat called?...."Paw"....OK put the two together Toe-Paw,Toe Paw....ToePaw.....Ka pai!!.

We stopped off at Waiotapu and Kerosene Creek to have a look and the brochure says...."over thousands of years, volcanic action has created a landscape of simmering craters, boiling hot water, fumaroles and steam vents....pretty impressive stuff that's the scientific explanation ...... Translation.....MUD going "plop,plop,plop".

Reaching The Huka Falls where 220,000 something litres of water goes thundering over the cliff face per second !

After this point (depends who you talk too) the river then becomes the Waikato River.

Stopped for a look see at Wairakei Geothermal power station and field.

Then called into the famous Taupo Bungy..... Actually I did a jump when K and I just started seeing each other.........so I guess you could say it all started from here.

I tried my best to talk Mum or Dad into taking the plunge but no luck.....come on what says "I love you" more than hurling yourself off "The Plank" 43 metres above the Waikato River??

I really like Taupo its right on the edge of the lake and on a clear day you get views right across to the snow-capped volcanoes of Tongariro National Park (or for those LOTR's nutters....Mt Doom)
She's a pretty big lake at 616 square kilometres it's about the same size as Singapore!

Shopped around in the main st area and just had a bit of a relax Mana found a "Buzzy Bee" ride and "insisted" that she should to ride it......and besides it was painted with bright colours.After all that we dove back to Rotorua and jumped on the bus back to Auckland.