Morning dawned at the lake and a chance for a swim.The next door camper occupant came back from a morning run – Englishman in NZ for a wedding and only touring around for 3 days, though his parents had bought a cottage in Hamilton(?) to spend half the year in UK. half in NZ.
We headed into town to Whakarewarewa Maori village. Here the people had relocated from the pink and white terraces after the eruption that destroyed the terraces in 18xx. The village wa built on thermal geysers, pools and mud volcanoes. The Maori cooked food using geothermal heat and the pools, bathed in water from the pools and so on. Some of the houses had vents beside them, and occasionally when a vent started under one they had to relocate the family.
This took a lot of the day and we were too late to tour the Rotuorua museum which closed at 5pm, so back to the campsite and another swim in the lake and a quiet evening.
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