on the second day we left the motel at 8am (on a sunday) to drive the hour and half down to waitomo
waitomo is famous for its glow worm caves
but there are three big caves which have tours around
we went on all three. photoing caves wasn’t easy so excuse these poor attempts to capture how amazing the place looked
this is a bone of an extinct Moa which was a giant flightless bird. this one fell down a hole in to the cave
all three of the caves we went to were amazing for different reasons
highlights were an elderly lady on our tour doing a giant burp, our hilarious guides and of course the glowy worms (which you can’t take photos of)
these photos give you an idea of how high the caves are
we also went for a circular walk round the outside of one of the caves where you could see the river going in to the caves
that involved a little bit of climbing through holes in rocks
they do black water rafting in the caves and the girls were very taken with the idea
but thankfully they are too young at the moment
this was getting off the boat at the end of the glow worm cave
on the way back we stopped at the big apple cafe mainly due to the big apple
they served Big Az ice cream (as in ‘Big As’, or ‘Sweet As’)
the girls and i went to explore the big apple after our cake
then it was back home to the spa pool
we stopped at the toothbrush fence on the way, but that’s a separate story
(and i thought you might like this. it’s a car sized sign advertising a pie and a can of fizzy drink for just $3 (one pound fifty). Bargain.
