Sublime and Beautiful Sunday By the Water in NZ

This post is for #SublimeSunday is inspired by @c0ff33a and #BeautifulSunday is initiated by @ace108.

For this post I am going Way back again to a trip I took back to NZ many years ago, I was thinking about how for me I find places by the water both Sublime and beautiful.

For me that probably came to be through growing up in New Zealand such a beautiful country, not a big country but also not a big population only a little under 5 Million people in fact people are out numbered by Sheep with there being about 26 million sheep.

But I am digressing as I often do I guess, but the point I was trying to get to, with a relatively small population there is so much greenery and beauty to be seen all around the country.

One spot I pretty much always visited while back in NZ is a popular touristy city called Taupo on the edge of Lake Taupo and then to visit the Huka falls.

This shot is of the river running to the Huka Falls surrounded by beautiful greens.

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The Huka Falls are actually a series of waterfalls, but the main one to view is the one shown in the next photo.
The volume of water flowing through often approaches 220,000 litres per second. The flow rate is regulated by Mercury NZ Ltd through the Taupō Control Gates as part of their hydro system planning, with Waikato Regional Council dictating flows during periods of downstream flooding in the Waikato River catchment. Mercury NZ have ability to control the flows between 50,000 litres per second (or 50 m3/s) and 319,000 litres per second (319 m3/s).

New Zealand has if I remember rightly around 100 Hydro Electric Power stations

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A little down river from the falls I was on a trail and saw this viewpoint down to the river and this group of canoeist enjoying a day on the water

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ON the road from Napier to Taupo is a rest stop with a view of these water falls called the Waipunga falls,

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Not this next Waterfall I believe is in a park in Napier

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Now back in Either Taupo or a nearby City of Rotorua there are a lot of areas with active geothermal activity and a few parks where you can walk around and see hot mud pools and other geothermal activity

There is also a geothermal Power plant in Rotorua

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And that’s all folks

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