pupu springs

We ran into our co-workers Bobby, Edith and Elsie at the Pupu Springs parking lot, then bumped into our former co-workers, Americans Kim and Hope, in the grocery store on the way back…guess there aren’t a lot of people, or things to do, in this area.

Pupu Springs, about 60 km from the orchard, is a freshwater spring that kicks out 40 bathtub-fulls or water per second according to the signs. It is also, they claim, the clearest freshwater spring in the world, with 140m of horizontal visibility. At least until didymo, an invasive algae from Florida, takes over the remainder of the streams in the park – it’s gotten to about half of them despite the intensive ‘clean-check-dry’ campaign.

We could see some huge trout in the water – pretty cool. Which reminds me, one more thing to add to the NZ activity to-do list…