While driving around the outskirts of Rotorua, we found a trail along the river that leads to the lake. Along the river we came across a cave, a set of really powerful rapids, and an old, rusted hydroelectric powerstation.
Makes you want to get an inflatable raft, no?
The path down the cliff to the cave.
The cave. In wartime, the local Maori tribe used to lower their families by ropes to this cave to hide them.
The remains of the power plant and a rusted turbine. This plant was built alongside the river, rather than as a dam across the river. The water shot along the raceway and powered several turbines.Some shots along the trail, and a few from quite a ways off the trail:
