Friday, November 2, 2007

Green Glowing Poo

Wet suit? -check
Goofy white plastic boots? - check
Oversized red plastic helmet with LED light?- check
Making sure not to drink too much coffee before getting into all this stuff for 5 hours?-Whoops.
Now we're ready to go caving in Waitomo (world famous for it's glow worm caves)!
We started off with a 30 meter rappel into the mouth of the cave. From there we took a ride on a zip line through the pitch black to the underground Milky Way created by the glow worms. Our adventure had only just begun. We plunged about 25 feet into the 11 C water with our inner tubes and started rafting our way through the caves (hence the wet suits). The sight was amazing! Thousands of green glowing worm butts lit our way. After a while we ditched our tubes and spelunked through the rest of the massive underground flooded corridors. We winded our way through tight squeezes, and up and down waterfalls fending off eels until we saw our first rays of sunlight piercing through the abject blackness.

1 comment:

Quizbo said...

Are you serious? I never thought glow worms were something real... much less the center of an underground attraction. Super cool...