WAITOMO

DAY THREE: Waitomo Caves

Visited the Waitomo Caves and went on a walking tour within some of them and a boat tour in another. When all the light pollution from outside was eliminated the entire cave glowed like the brightest stars I've ever seen, only instead of stars there were thousands of glow worms everywhere. We learned a lot about the geology of the region (so I can report back to Gabe what I learned) and the life cycle of the glow worm.





The rivers around here have tons of freshwater eels so they lured a few out with goat meat and brought them out of the water...really creepy little buggers! All I could think about was that scene from Princess Bride when she gets stuck in the ocean with the giant eels.





Me outside of the cave.

Now in Rotorua for the next two nights.