Tikitere.

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 344, 4 October 1932, Page 8

Tikitere.

One taking the Six Lakes Trip should not miss the labyrinth of multi-coloured pools of water and mud with varying levels and degrees of thermal activity at Tikitere. It is I practically speaking, the Playground | of Man's Arch-enemy, for here are } revealed his manifold moods of energetic turbulence, rage and violence in marked contrast to his moods of j placid innoncence and tranquility as j evidenced by pools of mud and -vfater j contiguous to each other. | One enters the Playground through ( Hell's Gate where under the guidance ? of "The Captain," (Late Chief Guide j at Wairakei), one sees the Devil's Cauldron, The Sulphur Bath, The j Inferno, The Devil's Frying Pan, I Satan's Porridge Pot, alongside of which one has a glimpse of the i Garden of Eden with the Ladies' j Pool, separated from it by Satan's | Glory, Satan's Boiling Kettle and of His Trough of Dough. * The tremendous forces under- | ground are so powerful as to cause ; the Earth to tremble and vibrate and j even huge masses of molten rocks | to oscillate, seemingly imbued with | rage and resentment at being so rude- | ly disturbed. Indications of a heavy bush overwhelmed in prehistoric | times are seen in abundance. |