Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland
@ Wai-o-tapu, thermal wonderland
@ Wai-o-tapu, thermal wonderland {20•04•19} Another self-guided walk around the geothermal area. Wai-o-tapu, thermal wonderland in the Taupō volcanic 🌋 zone, Rotorua, NZ 🇳🇿 A huge area full of cold/boiling pools, mud pools, water/steaming fumaroles. Enough of Geology 101, we headed of to Rotorua shopping district 🛍 oi oi oi เจอบ่อน้ำร้อนที่แรกยังไม่สาแก่ใจ พี่โอ้พาไปอีกที่ กว้างใหญ่กว่า เหงาน้อยกว่า ได้กระทบไหล่นักท่องเที่ยวชาวเอเชียตลอดเส้นทาง อิอิ เดินบนทางไม้กระดาน ขึ้นเนินลงเนินบ้าง ใช้เวลาไป 2 ชม. มีทั้งน้ำพุร้อนไกเซอร์ น้ำพุร้อน บ่อไอเดือด บ่อโคลนเดือด ไม่เหม็นเท่าไหร่ บรรยากาศสวยดี ถ่ายรูปจนกล้องแบตหมด
"Te Rua Uenuku" - The rough sides and yellow-greenish colors of these craters where cooling volcanic vapors have colored the walls
Part of thermal wonderland, (graphite and crude oil, a bit dry today)
Steaming
"Artist's Palette" - the largest of the hot water springs at Wai-o-Tapu Thermal wonderland.
Like a wet hot desert, Artist's Palette
Interest textures ลายเปลือกไม้
"Te Rere Ārai Mārena" - Green color can be attributed to bacteria and archaea.
Texture of the Alum Cliffs. Shallow horizontal ridges that have been eroded from hundreds of years of weathering.
"Papa Wera" - (Frying pan flat) eruption crater that has an unstable floor which is littered with bubbling hot springs and small vents releasing volcanic gases.
"Puna o Ngakoro" (Ngakoro Waterfall) 💚
"Puna o Ngakoro" (Ngakoro Waterfall) - waterfall flows over the rocks into the green waters of Lake Ngakoro, formed from a hydrothermal eruption over 700 years ago. Warm water allows algae bloom. 🦖
"The Champagne Pool", hot bath anyone?
"Roto Kārikitea" - This crater is filled with excess water from the Champagne Pool. This color is the result from a deposit of minerals being suspended in the water and refracting the sunlight. Super acidic (PH is 2)
@ Wai-o-tapu, thermal wonderland
Purple = Manganese Oxide สีม่วง แมงกานีสออกไซด์ Red/Brown = Iron Oxide สีแดง น้ำตาล ไอรอนออกไซด์ Yellow = Sulphur สีเหลือง กำมะถัน
"Te Rua Whaitiri" - Collapsed craters where the acidic steam coming from underground has caused ground to collapse. The crater is now 4 times its original size (in 1968) and will continue to grow
Sulphur
Lovely area - Native bush walk - a ridge through a strand of giant Kānuka trees.
Sinter terraces. Water that flows over the terraces evaporates and leaves behind geyserite. Ongoing process for over 700 years.
Meandered on boardwalks
Part of the thermal wonderland, "Wāhi Tapu", in amongst the trees is an unmarked ancestral Urupa (burial ground) which makes this area sacred.
Walking along the river
The Alum Cliffs. Shallow horizontal ridges that have been eroded from hundreds of years of weathering.
"Te Puna Tio" (Oyster Pool) - the shape of an oyster!
"The Champagne Pool" The orange rim around the edge contains the minerals arsenic and antimony sulphur.
"Anga Whānāriki" (Sulphur Cave) - Sulphur crystals have formed beautiful formations on the wall above the vents in this crater.
"Roto Kārikitea" - a beautiful acidic neon green pool, beautiful but dangerous.
"Te Rua Uenuku" - The colors around the wall of the crater are due to oxidization and reflect rainbow-like colors. (Brown/Red : Iron Oxide) (Purple : Manganese Oxide) (Yellow : Sulphur) (Pink : Cinnabar) (White : Kaolin)
"Ipu" Pools of mud contain unrefined crude oil. The color and consistency of the mud is from a combo of small parts of graphite and crude oil.
"Artist's Palette" - This name? because the trace mineral deposits that streak its surface and which are distributed by direction of the wind.
"Te Wauaruki o Mahuika" - the hot spring of Mahuika is a sulfurous spring on the edge of the sinter terrace.
"The Champagne Pool" from afar
Lake Ngakoro surrounded by the Kaingaroa forest, the largest man-made forest in the Southern hemisphere.
Crispy
Acidic lake! but the yellow-greenish colors look beautiful tho.
"Rua Whānāriki" (Sulphur Cave)
"Rua Whānāriki" (Sulphur Cave) - Sulphur crystals formed here as the hot hydrogen sulphite gas has cooled and crystallized in the sheltered area of the overhanging cliff
"Anga Whānāriki" (Sulphur Cave) - Sulphur crystals have formed beautiful formations on the wall above the vents in this crater. Some of the few chlorine pools in this area may have been used by the local people to cook in.
Full of it.
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