Lake Rotoroa - Hamilton, New Zealand

Lake Rotoroa (or Hamilton Lake Domain) is a lake in Hamilton, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand.It has a surface area of about 54 hectares and an average depth of 2.4 metres.It is the home of the Hamilton Yacht Club, which holds regular sailing in the summer.Lake Rotoroa formed, like most of the Waikato lakes, about 20,000 years ago, when the Waikato changed to flow out at Port Waikato, rather than at Thames.

Balloons over Waikato is an annual hot air balloon festival that celebrated its 20th birthday in 2019, held in Hamilton, New Zealand. It is held over five days during autumn and attracts both local and overseas balloonists. The Festival is held primarily at Innes Common, at Hamilton Lake, which gets an estimated 130,000 visitors during the festival.