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Mud Pools and Glow Worms

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MUDPOOLS Sorry folks, no pictures of the mud baths, our cameras may be splash proof from water, but I didn’t count on them being mud proof. Besides, we were both covered in mud so we would have blended in anyway. The mud baths were fun and they were the same wild geothermal pools bubbling up from the ground as they were before Europeans took over and surrounded each pool with concrete for visitors access. Regardless of feeling that we were in a faux geothermal pool, we still had fun. It…read more

Mata Atua

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This was such a special place for both of us. Located in the town of Whakatane, (pronounced fuck-a-ta-ni) was the Ngati Awa Maori Tribe visitors centre. We were lucky enough to be the only two people there, so we received a personal tour of their history, language and culture. The visitors Centre was built around the story of the house that came home. The House is an intricately carved Maori house (or wharenui) A meeting house, hand carved by the local Maori’s in the 1870’s  to bring the Ngati Awa…read more