Walk around Hell's Gate, Rotorua, NZ
A walk around Hell's Gate thermal park, the water is high in silica and turning the rocks into silica terraces
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Walk around Hell's Gate, Rotorua, NZ
The thermal terraces at Hells Gate
Thermal waterfalls - the high silic content of the water is turning the rocks to terraces of coloured silica terraces
Tourists enjoy a walk around the thermal area
The rocks are getting slowly coated in white silica
Still hot water reflects the light and shadows
the hot boiling opal coloured water on a silica terrace
Boiling water flows from pool onto rocks below, sulphur and silica along with other crystals make the rocks very colorful
old bridge across a unused path that had to close when the pools appeared a few years ago.
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