This sign is in an otherwise ordinary park in the middle of Rotorua, central North Island, known for the intensive geothermal activity in and around the area.
In other words: boiling water! Boiling mud! Steam! Rotten eggs! (sulphur emissions)
You can't see it really clearly in the second photo above, but this hole in the ground (not even behind a barrier) was bubbling away. Hot stuff. What's amazing is that the pukeko bird (common fowl sorta like a blue chicken with orange beak) walks around in these hot hot waters hunting for whatever. Food, I would imagine.
Tomorrow we will visit one of the thermal parks in the region and see much, much more of this before heading north to visit more beaches.
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