Fly me to the moon...
WARNING: Even more geography geekiness in this post
In Taupo (about an hour or so south of Rotorua) at the moment, came down this morning, just here for the day. The town is on Lake Taupo the biggest lake in the Southern Hemisphere. The lake is also the rim of a volcano.
YAY Volcanoes!
I spent the day doing to the museum, dodging rain, looking at the waterfalls, exploring the Craters of the Moon and the Volcano Centre.
I can highly recomend the Volcano Centre (it's a little bit out of town) to anyone who is interested in natural disasters and hands on learning. They have a earthquake simulator, a geyser simulator, a funky outlay of the surrounding volcanic area (with lights), a 3D jigsaw of techtonic plates, movies on volcanoes and a tornnado box. Very VERY cool! They also have updates daily of all the Earthquakes in New Zealand as well as a computer siesmegraph (okay I can't spell but it's the thing that you measure earthquakes with!).
Craters of the Moon is (yet another) area of geothermal activity, but is mostly eerie craters with steam and pink bubbly mud. Mmmm pink bubbly mud. And moss and algea.
This stuff is incredibly interesting and wonderful and many *happy bounces*
In Taupo (about an hour or so south of Rotorua) at the moment, came down this morning, just here for the day. The town is on Lake Taupo the biggest lake in the Southern Hemisphere. The lake is also the rim of a volcano.
YAY Volcanoes!
I spent the day doing to the museum, dodging rain, looking at the waterfalls, exploring the Craters of the Moon and the Volcano Centre.
I can highly recomend the Volcano Centre (it's a little bit out of town) to anyone who is interested in natural disasters and hands on learning. They have a earthquake simulator, a geyser simulator, a funky outlay of the surrounding volcanic area (with lights), a 3D jigsaw of techtonic plates, movies on volcanoes and a tornnado box. Very VERY cool! They also have updates daily of all the Earthquakes in New Zealand as well as a computer siesmegraph (okay I can't spell but it's the thing that you measure earthquakes with!).
Craters of the Moon is (yet another) area of geothermal activity, but is mostly eerie craters with steam and pink bubbly mud. Mmmm pink bubbly mud. And moss and algea.
This stuff is incredibly interesting and wonderful and many *happy bounces*
posted by moonbug @ Friday, August 13, 2004
1 Comments:
At Friday, August 13, 2004 1:43:00 pm,
Simon said…
Pink mud.
PINK MUD!
The pink mud commands ME!
*runs off into the distance chortling manically*
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