Hamurana Springs

Winter is here, it's damp and cold.  A good time to go for a walk to the deep spring.

Hamurana Springs is only 20 minutes drive from home.  Tighe likes all the duck and geese that live here.

 Tighe wanted to take this duck home, but we convinced him to just watch it instead.

 The colours of the Redwoods were more vivid because of the damp weather.

An enchanted fairytale land was how Sarah from France described the outing. She expected to see Sleeping Beauty in the wonderland. Very poetic.

 The Redwoods sheltered us from the rain, and the urchins played amoung the trunks.

 I liked the vivid greens and blues in the crystal clear spring water.

The Hangarua Spring is 15 metres deep. It produces about 4 million litres of crystal clear water per hour at a chilly 10 degrees Celsius.

 There were trout in the spring, and we watched a coin float in the bubbling water.

A short walk along the stream is the Dancing Sand spring.  The spring pushes up the sand, and it is relaxing watching the flecks of sand bubbling in the water.

The walk is only 800m to the Spring, but we took an hour to wander around the reserve, watch the bubbling waters, and enjoy the wild life.