Friday, September 19, 2025
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| View of Lake Taupō |
This morning we stopped at a chemist/pharmacy to purchase a cane to ease the weight-bearing stress on Tamiko's left hip.
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| A cheese scone before our excursion of the day |
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We took the Māori Rock Carvings Cruise on the
Ernest Kemp, a replica steam boat |
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Leaving the Waikato River into Tapuaeharuru Bay
of Lake Taupō (KSS) |
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| Town of Taupō as seen from the lake (KSS) |
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| Snow-covered mountains in the distance (KSS) |
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| Heading toward Mine Bay (KSS) |
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| Acacia Bay, an affluent neighborhood |
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Approaching the Māori Rock Carvings, which
can only be seen by boat |
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| The sailboat made way for us (KSS) |
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Māori Rock Carvings (1976-1980, by
master carver Matahi Whakataka-Brightwell
of Ngātoroirangi, the legendary navigator) (KSS) |
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| Carvings of the kaitiaki/guardians (KSS) |
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| Kent & Tamiko with Ngātoroirangi |
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| Ngātoroirangi closeup |
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| Mermaid head |
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Small carving at Rangatira Point was apparently first done
by Tom Ryan c 1899, then was reworked in the 1970s by
Matahi Whakataka-Brightwell before he did Ngātoroirangi |
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Mount Tuahara is called the reclining woman mountain
because of its profile with the face on the right,
then breast, stomach and legs |
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| Man in a kayak fishing with his dog |
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Back in town, we had lunch at Cornerstone Taproom Taupō,
with the special offering buy-one-get-one-free beer |
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| The special was a burger on a waffle |
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| Fish burger and chips |
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| Taupō Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Taupō Museum's Ora Garden of Wellbeing |
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Ora Garden of Wellbeing; Pachystegia
insignis/Marlborough Rock Daisy buds (KSS) |
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| Pumice anchor float |
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| Nguru/small flutes (KSS) |
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| Lake Taupō (1870) (KSS) |
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Punarua (2023-2024, by Hone Bailey) is
inspired by an ancestral narrative about
the demigod Maui who captured the sun
and made it agree to travel more slowly
across the sky to make daylight longer |
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| A Kiwiana caravan filled with 1950s memorabilia (KSS) |
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| Inside the caravan that was manufactured in New Zealand |
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Skeleton (discovered in 1969) of a Moa, a now extinct
flightless bird that was a main source of food for
the Maori when they first arrived in New Zealand |
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Botanical display (1850-1851, by Elisa Emma King)
using carefully prepared skeleton leaves, fruits, and flowers
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| A scale-model diorama of a sawmill tramway |
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A volcano display featured volcanic
rocks, such as the fine-grained Dacite (KSS) |
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Obsidian is from slow syrupy flows that
cool quickly into a glass-like rock (KSS) |
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Scoria is from fragments of lava that
burst out like popcorn before cooling (KSS) |
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Pumice is created when there is a sudden
drop in pressure causing the lava to froth
so that it is light and full of gas bubbles (KSS) |
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| Octopus quilt |
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| Wharenui/Māori Meeting House |
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| We drove 2.5 hours to Napier and checked into the Quality Inn |
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| Quality Inn room |
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| Quality Inn bathroom |
Next: Napier.
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