What an amazing day! After we slipped into our, really cool, wetsuits and Joe and I had finished pretending to be action man. We abseiled down into the cave system.
Abseiling was one of the most terrifying things I have done. Much worse than sky diving. As I knew that the only thing separating me from crashing 40 foot into a rock floor was me not messing up. No guide, no saftey measure. Just me swinging about on a bit of rope.
I think the woman sending us down the hole realised I was scared. Mainly as I took about 3 attempts and kept doing a weird squat thing to stay standing on the platform.
Once down we I instantly started to enjoy the mysterious caves. We had some hot chocolate and flapjack before progressing into the underground river floating through on inflatable rings. We drifted through the cool cave system surrounded by dazzling glow worms giving the caverns and tunnels a magnificent ambiance. After some floating, wading and swimming we climbed up the faces of some underground waterfalls and through some tiny intestine like tunnels. We finished with some more river wadeing and took in the amazing glow worms. Which, interestingly are actually maggots with poo that glows through there abdomens. These maggots turn into flys, that have no mouths. So live for three days until they starve to death. In that time they fornicate for about 90% of the time!
From Waitomo we drove as far as we could and camped overnight before driving all day the next day. Bringing us to sunny Wellington!
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