Show The Birth of a Geyser Near the the fanlo famous s' s sand and erratic err tic geyser geyser- geyser of Waimangu in n New Zealand so Zealand so v whimsical in ni its and nd times of of quiet that the oldest Maori in the thee region legion can gie gi e t the i visitor visitor no schedule schedule sched sched- ui ule of f iti these these se perform performances there performances es there has lat lately lf been born a new anew geyser ser A Aey few before the birth a passer passer passer-by by y had stopped to I loot ol at ata a a p placid little lagoon lagoon la la- goon ringed about with with gentle gent e green slopes Then dwellers in tl the region were were n notified o of something doing by bya a salvo saho o of earthquakes ea more mor more th than than n thirty shocks In ii in half h as as s many many minutes min min- ut utes s The next next- m man n who walked that way found instead of f the placid green ringed lagoon lagoona a boiling bubbling JUng caldron caldron cal cal- dron over over which which- hovered and soared and rolled into nt fl-nt fantastic tic shapes shapes' a dense cl cloud u o of steam The older and more famous geyser looks looks' pl placid enough gh too son sometimes then it wears a feathery foamy cap again it belches belches' out water vater and and sto stones es and mud mud to to lira lint mense nse heights arid and d with immense f. f |