Check out these pools I visited today near the city of Taupo. The green colour of the water is made by the natural minerals that occur in the unfiltered water but the colour is not the most interesting bit; This pool was naturally 39°c today, that's warmer than a lot of people have their baths! In fact the only machines used to make water this warm were to COOL it down from it's natural temperature which is even hotter.
This is still in the area of New Zealand with a lot of geothermal activity and the temperature under the surface heats the water up on it's journey before it comes out from springs much hotter than we are used to in the UK. It was weird to swim in it but it was very relaxing and I much prefer this type of geothermal activity to having egg-smelling steam blown in my face!
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