Friday's Activities in Taupo

Thankfully Friday morning when we woke up it wasn't raining, like it has been since we started this road trip 5 days ago. We decided we better make the most of it. First we headed to Huka Prawn Park, where we went last time we came to Taupo, to catch some shrimp. This time in addition to fishing for shrimp we also took a tour of the facility. In the tour we got to see some really huge prawns and some little bitty baby prawns. We stayed at the park almost 7 hours. After the prawn park we went to Craters of The

Moon, which is a geothermal park. There are several very large craters and tons of small cracks. All of these have steam pouring out of them which is from pressure beneath the surface. There were also a couple of mud pools which were bubbling up. After Craters of The Moon, we went to Huka Falls. These falls are not very tall, but are very powerful creating a super strong undertow at the base. Several small falls in the river lead up to the last plunge of 35 feet. The color is amazing in the river. The rain started to come down again, so we didn't spend to much time at the falls. We have two more days in Taupo before we head to our last North Island destination on this road trip, so hopefully we will have some decent weather. We are both very anxious to get to the South Island on the 21st.