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Published: 2007-05-14 12:30:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 817; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 0
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The bright colours at Champagne Pool are caused by trace amounts of arsenic and antimony. These are extracted from the water by sulfur precipitating in the pool. The ridges around the pool are composed of sinter (fine-grained silica). The pool and its margins are teeming with microbial life.This pool is 62m deep. its surface temperature is 74 degrees C and bubbles due to carbon dioxide. The pool was formed 700 years ago by a hydrothermal eruption. Minerals contained in the water include gold, silver, mercury, sulphur, arsenic, thallium and antimony. They are depositing in the surrounding sinter ledge.
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You'll find lots in my gallery - I never used to be interested in landscapes until I came on DA - but now I'm hooked
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I love pictures of landscapes and people in other countries!!!! Makes me feel like I'm travelling around the world.
I'm watching Gazza-NZ, and he shows us all the beauty of NZ too!!! I don't know where he is living, but I think it
might be Christchurch. He never told it.
Glad you have lots of landscapes in your gallery too!!!
I often google (Earth) to other countries, like NZ and always wonder where other deviants live!!!
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Thanks for telling! Wow great photographer too!!!
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are you watching Grunta as well - he's got some incredible landscapes of nz as well....
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Oh and did you do any editing or is this how it came out originally?
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No editing - this is how it came out
Cheers
Robyn
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If I ever go to NZ I must go there to check it out.
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It's a fabulous place to go - the whole of Rotorua is interesting, but Waiotapu is the best place for volcanic stuff
Cheers
Robyn
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No - it's 74C onn the surface - even hotter underneath - so no - you can't swim in it
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and the gold
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yes it is - Anyone who visits me from overseas gets taken there
Cheers
Robyn
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I hope they leave with you!
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LOL - yes I make sure they keep safe too 
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Beautiful
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I'll have a look at that again - I think i did conssier it but lost too much when I did that
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Actually this poool wasn't sulphurous at all - it was fine - further on is the sulphur crater which did have the sulphurous ssmell - fortunately I love the smell of sulphur
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sweet i was thinking can u swim in it but then i read how hot it is so i gess not lol but any way cool where is that
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No - definitely no swimming
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hehe i realsie that when i read it
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This is just beautiful! I really like the clouds in this!
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Thanks 
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You forgot to add that they stink! In the USA, we have these at Yellowstone Park and that's what I remember the most.
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hmmmmmm - but I love the smell of sulphur so for me it doesn't stink
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I love the mist coming off the water, very cool looking shot, well done.
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thank you - glad you like it. The mist is actually steam from the boiling crater
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grrr! lol where do u live!i hate u!
u ave so beautifull landscape in newzeland!
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That's beautiful. Thanks for the explanation of why it looks that way. Can't wait to show it to my kids!!
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Great shot, I love this place, well the smell takes getting used to
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LOL - I love the smell - have you been there?
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