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Beautiful viewpoint overlooking the coast - great for sunset and picnics.

Fascinating nature within easy reach. 😃

Terns nest on the old wharf piles next to Harbourside restaurant

low gear & turbo helps!

great moccha at wheelhouse cafe

In my opinion not worth the money throughout the day. You can literally walk underneath it for free. At night however it’s a different story really cool experience in the dark. Make sure to get there late though as it tends to be quite crowded even during night hours.

In 1906, prisoners at a penal camp run by the then Department of Justice in the Wai-O-Tapu area discovered that the hot spring in which they washed their clothes and which today forms the basis of the geyser reacted to soapy water and ejected hot water. Scanlon, the head of the penal camp, then reduced the diameter of the opening of the spring using a steel pipe, which he used to increase the height of the water outlet at the same time and surrounded the pipe with pumice stone to create a cone. This made fountains of up to 50 feet (around 17 m) and eruptions that could last several hours possible. The Northland Geyser, published in December 1906 by the New Zealand Herald, attracted increasing numbers of tourists to the site and made the artificial geyser an attraction. In an Evening Post publication on December 24, 1938, on the occasion of the visit of the Duke of Gloucester, a fountain height of 60 feet was reported, which corresponds to a height of around 20 m. Over the years, mineral deposits have settled over the pumice and shaped the edge of the exit hole so that the cone looks like a naturally formed cone. Source Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Knox_Geyser

A thermal area that is definitely worth seeing. With the Lady Knox Geyser and the colored pools.