Rotorua City Park - geothermals, gardens 11 Feb 2006

Videos at bottom!

 
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  In the middle of the city of Rotorua is a Park Fun geothermals here too! Steaming pools Bubbling pools steaming and bubbling

 
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  muddy and stinky sulfur smelly, but gorgeous Some of the bubbling pools have been here a long time - nice decorative stone wall around this one.

 
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  Others are brand new sinkholes, so recent there's just orange safety fencing around it This brand new one is right next to the road! Lotsa pretty flowers in the park too - these are Tuberous Begonias.

Videos of mud pots and boiling ponds in the City Park. Most are very short videos - around 10 to 15 seconds, are 2-3 meg each.

0:10 boiling mud

0:04 steaming pool, interesting swirls and sworls

0:10 boiling, but too much steam to see much

0:11 seriously boiling

0:08 good boiling under the steam

0:11 good mud bubbles

0:07 Looking almost straight down into a boiling little one

0:12 Steam, steam, and more steam

0:15 Lots of boiling mostly obscured by steam

0:20 Rolling boil

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