New Zealand - Skydive - Big trees - Volcanic region

We are now in Hawkes Bay where we will work during 3-4 weeks in the apples.

The first guy on the picture is our friend Thomas with some local shark's mouths.

Also look at Tina in front of Huka Falls (Taupo) with her Brasilian football shirt facing Jesus and his Argentine shirt. Is it realy friendship?...

Then, we wanted to face our fears and we decided to do Skydive! A tandem jump from more than 4000 meters with 45 seconds of free fall at a speed of 200 km/hour.
The first seconds of the jump are terrific, then you find stability and enjoy a fantastic view of the the Taupo lake. What a sensation ...for the ones who did it's like a new birth.
45 seconds after having jumped from the plane the parachute opens. At this time, you can still play with the speed going down in fast spiral for 5 more minutes and finally we reached the ground.
It's just Wonderfull!!! I have the green parachut and Nic the orange one.

In between, we went with Angus and Lili (2 kiwi's friends) to see the huge Kauri trees in the Forest. The biggest one has more than 50 meters high and has a girth of 17 meters! Can you see us between the trees ;-)?

Don't miss the yellow kiwi sign (symbolic bird of New Zealand that can't fly). To say the truth until now we haven't seen a real one...

The water with a mix of green and red is the Champagne pool in Rotorua.
Rotorua is one of the most volcanic region in the world, where they have water and mud boiling all over and it smells like rotten eggs! In the city you can see a bit everywhere smoke comming out of the ground. It gives you a kind of unpleasant impression that the volcan is going to explode at any time ...
The spa pool is naturally warmed up by hot water coming up from the ground. It's very very hot!
You can also see a 15 meters Geyser.