Today has featured many caves. I got the bus from rotorua this morning in the rain. I felt this could go one of two ways.... The good way is that a rainy day is the perfect day to be inside...the bad way is that too much rain means flooded caves! As it turns out it was somewhere in between...the trip I meant to be doing was cancelled due to flooding. This should have involved abseiling in, and floating around on an inflatable ring (or tube as they call it here), jumping in and out of the water, and sliding down waterfalls. The good news was that another option was available, which took a higher route through the caves, and involved more climbing and zip wires. This was good fun, so all in all the day was a success! And most importantly, the glow worms were out and sparkling in the ceiling. We got to see some close up. The bit that glows is a dot at the end of their tail, and they glow in order to attract flies who are looking for a way out of the cave. The flies get trapped in sticky web like strings that the worms trail from the ceiling. Glow worms are actually maggots, eventually bceoming flies themselves to lay more eggs. Pretty from afar though!
Because this wasn't the trip I should have had, I also get to do a tour of another cave in the morning before getting my bus, which is a walking and boat tour of a particularly glow worm filled cave. Hurray!
After the caves today I went for a walk in some countryside that was doing a very good impression of Yorkshire, especially in the rain! There was green grass, cows, undulating hills, muddy paths and a full muddy river. It took me to some excellent bonus caves that you could look inside, which were very impressive, and worth getting soggy for!
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