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Tongariro National Park: the cloud briefly lifts to give a glimpse of Mount Ruapehu.

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Mount Tongariro and Mount Ngauruhoe across Lake Rotoaira.

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The Rainbow Motel at Turangi lives up to its name. (The hot pool was good too
– fed by a natural hot spring in the motel grounds.)

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Geothermal area at Wairakai (Craters of the Moon).

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On the boardwalk at Craters of the Moon.

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Mary with her cousins John and Maisie in their garden.

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Whangamata beach, on the Coromandel peninsula.

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Norfolk Island pine at Whitianga, Coromandel peninsula.

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Coromandel bay from the hills above.