Te Aroha Spa Town

We are winding down in readiness to leave on Wednesday. A visit to Te Aroha was suggested, to look at the hot soda water geyser and this we did earlier today only to find no information nearby. However after reading the following on line see the geyser erupts every 40 minutes, we will have to use our imagination. It's colder today (and suspect the reason we didn't hang around) although the rain held off until we arrived back here, it is now a gloomy evening out there. Although it has rained on and off during the last 3 weeks we feel fortunate it remained dry on most of the outings.
Top left is the geyser and on the right warm water running into a series of ponds.

In the 1880s land was gifted to New Zealand by Maori chief Mokena Hou as a public domain for development as a health resort.

The mineral springs vary in temperature, and some of them are naturally infused with sodium bicarbonate underground, making for natural hot soda springs. To improve access to the soda water, a bore was sunk in the 1930s resulting in the world’s only hot soda water geyser – named the Mokena Geyser after the Maori chief who gifted the land. Today the Mokena Geyser erupts approximately every 40 minutes and is one of the great free attractions in the Waikato region.