We had one last day in Rotorua, and we decided to spend it going to Te Puia for another day. The temperature was in the upper 60's, and it was a nice sunny day. Once again we were able to skip the 9:00 AM tour and go directly to the geyser basin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kerer\u016b Geyser was quiet when we arrived, so we settled in to wait for a major eruption. And we were rewarded with a major less than 45 minutes after we arrived. There wasn't a single cloud in the sky, but... the conditions were awful. A few minutes before the eruption, the wind shifted and was blowing straight toward us. So all of the steam from Kerer\u016b came straight toward us, along with the stream from P\u014dhutu and Te Toru which were also erupting at the time. All we saw was a big massive cloud of steam. My video is so bad that I won't post it here. I even had to ask Heinrich afterwards if that was a major eruption since I couldn't see anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Immediately afterwards, Kerer\u016b went into minor eruption mode, and the minors lasted the entire day until we left at the 5:30 PM closing time. This was a new personal record for us in seeing almost 8 hours of minors. It was frustrating for me to have to leave without ever knowing how much longer those minors would last. And sadly I now have to say that I broke my previous record of recording minors with 111 posted for the day. I would have posted even more except for taking a much needed break for 2.5 hours when I walked around elsewhere. Heinrich recorded 8 more minors while I was on break, giving a total of 119 minors for the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/sjs.sputs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PXL_20260309_034722600-1024x576.jpg\")
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