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PHOTO: CHRISTEL YARDLEY/STUFF Susan Gedyes in front of the now dormant mud pool that forced her from her Rotorua home back in June.

It wasn’t just boiling mud and steam that erupted into Susan Gedye’s life when a mud pool unexpectedly opened up in her Rotorua garden, there were “beautiful things” too. 

Gedye’s Meade St home made national headlines last year when in the early hours of June 25, a newly formed mud pool exploded into life. 

When Stuff first spoke to Gedyes, just a few hours after the initial eruption, it was with a backdrop of bubbling noise, huge vents of steam and hot mud being flung into the air. 

The sheer scale of the mud pool crater is evident from the air.
CHRISTEL YARDLEY/STUFFThe sheer scale of the mud pool crater is evident from the air.

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