World's Best Hot Spring

-picture on camera to come soon-

Last night we stayed at a neat hostel in an active geothermal area. The owner gave us directions to what may have been the perfect hot springs. It was a hot water creek mixing with a cooler stream (about twice the size of the hot water one) and there was a long jut of rock near where the cool one came in that only let a little bit of the cool water into the big pool where they mixed. If you got too hot or cool you just moved over a few feet to a different temperature. It was just off the side of the road and there were 6 to 15 people there (some came and went in the nearly 2 hours we were there). There were other backpacking couples and some locals, including some fun children and an older lady sent there by her doctor. We did not take our camera yesterday, but drove by it on the way out of town today and took a picture. There was just one guy there this morning.

This afternoon we plan to do all or some of what some claim to be the "best day hike in the world" It is about 30-60 minutes from here and it is sprinkling here now. Then we have 3 to 4 hours to drive to get to Wellington where we are planning to stay with the twin bother (and his wife) of my New Zealand friend from ultimate (Robbie Minshall).