Tikitere.

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 336, 24 September 1932, Page 8

Tikitere.

One taking the Six Lakes Trip should not miss the labyrinth of multi-eoloured pools of water and mud with varying levels and degrees of thermal activity at Tikitere. It is practicaily speaking, the Playground of Man's Arch-enemy, for he^e are revealed bis manifold moods of energetic turbulence, rage and violence in marked contrast to his moods of placid innoncence and tranqui.ity as evidcnced by pools of mud and water cont'guous to each other. One enters the Playground through H'dl's Gate where under the guidance of "The Captain," (Late Chief Guide at Wairakei), one secs the Devil's Cauldron, The Sulphur Bath, The Ir.ferno, The Devil's Frying Pan, Satan's Porridge Pot, alongside of which one has a glimpse of the Garden of Eden with the Ladies' Pool, separated from it by Satan's Glory, Satan's Boiling ICettle and of His Trough of Dough. The tremendous forces underground are so powerful as to cause the Earth to tremble and vibrate and even huge masses of molten rocks to oscillate, seemingly imbued with rage and resentment at being so rudely disturbed. Inclications of a heavy bush overwhelmed in prehistoric times are seen in abundance.