Frying Pan Lake

January 21, 2013

This is looking across the lake (it's around 50-60 °C), from the outflow.  It's a part of Waimungu Volcanic Valley, which is my personal favourite of all of the thermal areas around Rotorua. From here the walk mostly follows the stream down to Lake Rotomahana, which was formed as a crater in the Mt Tarawera eruption in 1886 and which slowly filled with water until the 1930's and is now the deepest lake in the North Island of New Zealand.