Finally got through all my pictures. Here are some pictures of my dives. All the other pictures are in this post: Rarotonga :: Cook Islands
Cook Islands (or rather Rarotonga) is about 4.5 hours by plane from Auckland. Air New Zealand and Pacific Blue sometimes have specials and sell tickets for as low as NZ$99 – one way.
Tongariro National Park has to offer quite a few interesting hikes (or tramps as they say in New Zealand) and you get spectacular views of the surrounding area – at least on a good day. ;)
Kerosene Creek is a small river with little waterfalls and a temperature of about 40 degrees. It is located between Rotorua and Taupo near SH1 south of the turnoff of SH38 and north of Wai-O-Tapu. It’s pretty amazing to sit or slowly swim in the hot water, relaxing and feeling the pain of hiking all […]
Waiotapu is one of the many volcanic parks between Rotorora and Tapu. You have mud pools, hot springs, sulfor lakes, carbon terraces and volcanic vents all around. There’s also one geyser which errupts everyday punctually at 10:15am – with the help of a little organic soap… Kind of ridiculous…
…doesn’t really need words, does it? :-)
NZ has thausands of shades of green. I took the following photographs on a hike just within a radius of a few hundred meters.
Diving at Poor Knights Islands :-)
Muriwai Beach is a place at the west coast, just 35 km northwest of Auckland, where you have a long beach of black sand and nices waves to go (or practice) surfing. It also is the home of a colony of a few thousand gannets.
