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Arthur waiting for us to descend the stairs.  One of the few spots featuring a security fence of sorts.
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A small pool of permanently boiling water, used in the past to cook fish (still used, in fact, by the Rotorua Rangers...)
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A photo of Arthur taking a photo...tres pomo.  Also, geysers.  English say, 'geezer,' Canadian say, 'guyser.'  Interesting.
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Old faithless - three constantly spouting geysers and one that we eagerly awaited for half an hour, but never saw.  We demanded our money back.  Darn nature.
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Looks like snow.  Ha ha, little did you guess...it's just a bunch of sulfurous something caked on a rock.  It was 20 degrees outside.
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Julia & Arthur admire the muddy stream.
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More not snow.  Don't eat the yellow sulfur.  Ha ha.
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Sulfur, white kaolin, mud.
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Mud.  Note the steam.  And the green tree in the background.
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The same geysers on sulfurous moonscape, with fluffy trees in the background.
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The surface of the moon.
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An elevated view of the park - looks a bit like those people are being bombed.  But it was lovely.
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Are we in Wales?  Not enough consonants.
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A tiny Maori residence in a pit in the ground.
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House on a stick (or to be correct, marae on a stick...)
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Geysers from a distance, and in the background the hotel is visible.  A bit close to the smell, perhaps?
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The stream into which the sulfurous deposits flow - unlucky stream.
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