Tikitere

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 357, 19 October 1932, Page 8

Tikitere

One taking the Six Lakes Trip | , should not miss the labyrinth of | multi-coloured pools of water and I mud with varying levels and degrees ] of thermal activity at Tikitere. It is | practically speaking, the Playground 1 of Man's Arch-enemy, for here are §5 revealed his manifold moods of en- || ergetic turbulence, rage and violence gj in marlced contrast to his moods of ra placid innoncence and tranquility as g| evidenced by pools of mud and water g contiguous to eaeh other. i One enters the Playground through ra Hell's Gate where under the guidance g of "The Captain," (Late Chief Guide ra at Wairakei), one sees the Devil's |1 Cauldron, The Sulphur Bath, The 1 Inferno, The Devil's Frying Pan, 1 Satan's Porridge Pot, alongside of @ which one has a glimpse of the || Garden of Eden with the Ladies' ra Pool, separated from it by Satan's fj Glory, Satan's Boiling Kettle and ra of His Trough of Dough. ® The tremendous forces under- g ground are so powerful -as to cause ti the Earth to tremble and vibrate and ra even huge masses of molten rocks ra to oseillate, seemingly imbued with j| rage and resentment at being so rude- g ly disturbed. Indications of a heavy ra bush overwhelmed in prehistoric ra times are seen in abundance. 1