Rotorua and Orakei Korako

Just got back from a weekend with C at Rotorua, New Zealand's geothermal stink-pot. Smells like rotten eggs, looks like nothing you've ever seen. These next photos were taken about 45 minutes South of Rotorua at Orakei Korako Thermal Park, where the ground steams, geysers erupt and mud boils. It's nuts.

 
 
 

Here is lovely Lake Rotorua, actually the caldera of an active volcano. That doesn't seem to trouble the hoards of tourists playing in its waters and enjoying the local hot springs and mud baths.

 
 

All the swans on Lake Rotorua are black. Isn't "black swan" supposed to be idiomatic for a statistical outlier? Nobody tell Nassim Nicholas Taleb, ok?