Tag: Kuirau #721

A rainy day, heavy at times, but it got a bit sunny in the early afternoon, so we went to spend a couple of hours in Kuirau Park.

First stop was to take a look at Spring #721. This is the feature which erupted over 100 meters high for 15 minutes on a January Friday back in 2001. Now its just an opaque pool with some slight convection.

Visited the area along Tarewa Street, where several houses had to be abandoned when the springs they were built over reactivated. One of the springs is fairly large and clear and hot, which seems different in an area where most are opaque and acidic. Nearby is another hot feature, which is believe is #712, Parekohoru, that was boiling up about 30cm or so.

Kuirau Lake was steamy thanks to the high humidity from the rains. The boardwalk on the northeast side was fenced off. It looked like the lake might have risen just enough to start flooding and undermining the walkway.

The small spouters next to the Jaycee Thermal Monument seemed pretty much unchanged from the visit four years ago. The same could be said of most of the rest of the features.

After two hours, the rains started up again as we were leaving.