Saturday 7 January 2017

Blue Springs - Putaruru






On our drive yesterday our last stop was visiting the Blue Springs of Putaruru about 1 hour and 3o minutes from where we live. This place is truly magical - and by the colour of the water you can see why, right?



The water comes from the Mamaku Plateau where the water takes up to 100 years to filter through, and the result is so pure that it produces a lovely blue clear colour.



We were lucky enough to see a few trout swimming here and there in the water. There were signs up specifying no swimming but it was dismaying to see people paddling and floating on the water on blow up tubes.

More Weekend Reflections here :-)

9 comments:

carol l mckenna said...

Great photos of a lovely place ~ and love the trout swimming ^_^

Wishing you a Happy and Healthy New Year ~ ^_^

Pauline said...

What a fab place. Honestly, don't you just want to ban some people from precious places like that?!

marsha said...

Super photos...too bad about people disregarding the signs!

Margaret Birding For Pleasure said...

Lovely reflections. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU and I hope 2027 will be a very healthy year for you also.

Lady Fi said...

So very lovely!

Jim said...

Beautiful reflections.
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Rhonda Albom said...

Beautiful clear water.

Sallie (FullTime-Life) said...

Oh it is just beautiful... pure and what should be untouched glory! Sometimes people make me so mad... some of those kind everywhere.

NatureFootstep said...

I was 3 weeks in NZ many years ago, but there is so many gorgeous places I did not have the time or possibility to see. Thanks for sharing them. :)

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