Waitomo-Fo

This place is a tiny little road side town with a population of maybe 6 people, 1 cafe and 1 hostel.. But you don't come here for the social life, you come for the caves!  I did a black water rafting cave tour, and it was so much frightening fun!! 

A group of us got dressed in wetsuits and coal miners hats, picked a rubber raft of choice and bused up to mouth of the Waitomo Glowworm Caves, where we started the tour by jumping backwards into an eel occupied river.  No poo or cry #already winning

Then we climbed into the caves, one face of brave terror after another, and it was just brilliant!  There was a river running below that we tubed through in near darkness, but then you turned off the helmet lights the whole cave turned into a starry sky of green glow worms! It was like a space centre simulation or something, so amazing!! It turned everyone mute in amazement, and took away completely from the fact that we were about 60mtrs into the ground 😳

We got to jump off a couple of mini waterfalls inside the cave, and perched up on some rocks to hear the tale that 'glowworms' is the commercial name for what are actually maggots with glow in the dark shit, that die of exhaustion after shagging for 48 hours straight.. Oh and ate a chocolate fish.

One guy got a bit claustrophobic and Yans (new fat German friend) struggled to fit through one of the caves.. but other than a guy pulling me by my ankle for a while because I was paddling myself into walls while gawping at the worms, I was a complete caving success and just bloody loved it!

In the eve I went back to the hostel on a farm and befriended some piglets and Dutchman.. And had to shout at Yans across the dorm room at 2am for snoring so loud it woke the whole room in bolt upright terror!

I'm waiting for the pictures from inside the caves, but will update the bloggo when they're through. Be excited.