More driving

Sun Sept 20/09
Seems to be more to sight see at the north end of the lake so we drove back to Taupo and checked at the lake boat ride tour. It was 1 minute from leaving so climbed on for the tour. The tour was about 2 hours long and was alright. The information about the lake was one thing I wanted to find out more about and was surprized about some of the history. Wendy make lunch at the room so we stopped in a park and ate. We decided it would be a good idea to stop at a honey farm and look around to see what they had to offer. You should do this sometime, they have more stuff than you can shake and finger at. I didn't know they can make so much from honey! We heard if we were at the damn at 2:30 we couold watch the water release. They let a lot of water go just to control the river level. Then a stop at a glass blowing factory made us feel we couldn't afford this stuff. Nice to look at anyway. Wendy said it would be too heavy to pack anyway. Just down the road the sign said 2 klms to a Natural Thermal Valley. They use the steam and hot water to make power and pipe the heat to the city for home heating. We stopped for 1/2 hour in Taupo and looked around in the shops then headed back down the lake to our room. One more day of sight seeing N.Z. DDT