Pupu
Spring, Pupu Hydro Walkway,
and Rawhiti Cave Track
and Rawhiti Cave Track
Pupu Spring
informative board at the entrance of Pupu Spring walkway
elegant boardwalk
the famous Pupu Spring
Clear Water of Pupu Sprigs
Pupu Springs - The world's most clear fresh water springs
Pure water rushing out of underground springs forming a huge river
The flow is large but not constant, between 7 and 21 cubic metres per second
beautiful scenery
Pupu Hydro Walkway
The Golden Bay’s first official walkway - A wider range of interests – scenery, history, plant
life, rock-hounding, engineering ingenuity
full journey - turn left at the powerhouse and
take the steadily graded track all the way to the stream
viewing from the lookout
over the bridge to the intake water
intake water
water is channeled down the water race from intake weir
water race in earth and stone wall
canal and wooden or concrete aqueducts
engineering ingenuity - more than three kilometres the water race was built in
1901-1902 It was completed in six months by eight men and amazing engineering
feats were accomplished
the narrow boardwalk along the water race is quite distinctive
the water dropped in pipes 123 metres to give the gold
sluicers enough pressure
steeply zig-zagging down to the carpark
Rawhiti Cave Track
crossing Dry River to enter the track entrance
track along the river
walking allong the valley
track scenes
towering cliffs on the opposite of the river
steeply zig-zagging up to the cave
Rawhiti Cave - see only portion of the cave
No photograph we took could do it justice as it was so vast and so full of long
plant life and then calcium covers it -
the stalactites become bigger and bigger
plant mosaic
the scenes viewing from outside
inside of the cave - you may feel its huge A LITTLE!
scenes inside the cave
viewing from the cave
Rawhiti Cave Track
an ancient cave with its enormous entrance studded with thousands of coloured stalactites
Rawhiti cave is a national significant example of phytokart. Phytokart is a phenomenon where plants and calcium work together to 'grow' stalactites andstalagmites. The phytokart features seen here at Rawhiti are rare in New Zealand caves.
這是一個非常巨大的岩洞 照相機沒法捕捉它的全貌 我們也必需把頭轉來轉去 才能看到全景 垂釣著數千各種顏色的鐘乳石確實壯觀震撼 只能用awesome (extremely impressive)一字來形容
這是一個非常巨大的岩洞 照相機沒法捕捉它的全貌 我們也必需把頭轉來轉去 才能看到全景 垂釣著數千各種顏色的鐘乳石確實壯觀震撼 只能用awesome (extremely impressive)一字來形容
crossing Dry River to enter the track entrance
track along the river
walking allong the valley
track scenes
towering cliffs on the opposite of the river
steeply zig-zagging up to the cave
Rawhiti Cave - see only portion of the cave
No photograph we took could do it justice as it was so vast and so full of long
plant life and then calcium covers it -
the stalactites become bigger and bigger
plant mosaic
the variety of colours visible on the rear wall of the cave come from the alage growing there
the scenes viewing from outside
inside of the cave - you may feel its huge A LITTLE!
scenes inside the cave
viewing from the cave
謝華達邦 Chamras Saewataporn - Butterflies Flowers
Awesome !
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