I stepped back into life here in Belgium and, like an out-of-control magic carpet, life whooshed off with me.
Almost 3 weeks after the return, I finally created a space to go wandering through 2 complete folders from that trip through New Zealand. There are so many more still to explore ... and process but most of the portraits are done now, with some massive ones still to do, Hunter and Clare, Peter and Christine.
Anyway, on our second day in the country, Christine and Peter took us on a North Island Roadtrip. The image below was taken at one the ports of call on that first surreal and magical day.
The Wai-O-Tapu thermal area covered about 18 sq.kms near Rotorua and it was area where collapsed craters, boiling mud pools and steaming fumaroles were the norm.
They told us that the area is associated with volcanic activity that happened about 160,000 years ago and that beneath us was a system of streams heated by magma from earlier eruptions ... water temperatures of up to 300 celsius have been recorded.
Stunning isn't it ...
