This promised hot springs and lush rainforest walks – the springs were full of excited youngsters, so we opted for the muddy rainforest walk.
The owner told us he had come from Northland a decade ago and “found a piece of paradise”.
These springs produce 250,000 litres a day of ancient sea water.
The water emerges from a fractured fault-line running across the Mangakawa valley and is piped to pools which are a 10 minute walk into the rain-forest. It cost $3 a person to soak in the hot pools!
It was strangely filled with spiky nikau palms and huge black ferns.
There was a bright gypsy caravan at the entrance that reminded us of Roald Dahl’s ‘Danny Champion of the World’ one.
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