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Grapes As far as the eye can see.

Take lot of photographs bathed in a cloud of Sulphurous Acid. Not to mention the smell.
View looked a bit, well, limited too!

Continuing the geothermal theme, here's a tasty hot green pond.

Sulphur.

Eased with a surfactant (soap to you and me) it does it's thing about 10 minutes after. Lots of warm, bubbly water.

Contrast this with the scenes in Doubtful when it's been raining (just search flickr or just click here). This gets 7 metres of rain a year, and when it rains it plummets. Down the hillsides. Wet gets a whole new meaning.

So does remote. To get here from Te Anau, the nearest significant town involves a coach of 20k, a trip across a freshwater lake of about 30km, then a drive across the Wilmot Pass (a road that connects nowhere to erewhon) of about 30km, then another saltwater boat of around 30km.....

This isn't populated! No-one could live here. It's too wet.

There is a story of an early NZ schoolmaster packing up and moving out here. Apparently left, inundated by rats.....