Waitomo Caves

Caves
If you double click and open this one you can see the glow worm fishing lines

No photos of the glow worms - sorry, you'll have to take my word for it to how amazing they were.

Inland for a little while, and although the weather has been kind, with only a sprinkling of rain and that always in the evenings, today it has decided to throw it down - in buckets! Not a bad day to go underground! I have to say that I am finding things quite expensive out here - compared to not spending anything for the last month +, and compared to Ecuador - and visiting some caves is no exception - NZ$78 for 2 caves (current exchange rate GBP2.75 and US$1.47). But as I am here and as David Attenborough chose to visit these caves I thought what the hell. I have to say that the caves are nothing too spectacular, with the whole process becoming a little too sterile with the concrete walk ways and lighting - okay, so I like things a little more natural and yes I would prefer things that the masses find inaccessible. What was amazing was the glow worms - hundreds of these little creatures living down in the dark with their blue light luminating walls and ceiling of the caves. This was best appreciated at the end of the visit when you get into a boat, and sail out of the cave in complete silence and darkness and just stare straight up and the cave ceiling is like the night sky - amazing.