We headed out of Auckland, stopping for tasty Vietnamese Pho in Hamilton., followed by delicious Duck Island ice-cream. We arrived into Ngarata Lake in torrential rain in the dark, hoping there would be space in the free camping. There was!
We headed on down for our first major stop at the Waitomo Caves. We looked round the little Piri Piri cave and the stunning Marokopa waterfall.
The plan was to camp overnight and then see the Glowworm Caves in the morning. Unfortunately they were sold out so we went on a super bushwalk instead which had some little tunnels and saw our first glowworms.
At last we then got to see the glowworms in the proper tourist cave! They were very glowy. You could see hundreds of these larvae with their long strands hanging down waiting to catch a tasty flying morsel. They are interesting things. They glow for a few days, then make a cocoon which hatches into a fly. But the fly has no mouth so they can only live for a few days before they die. Their sole purpose - to reproduce. They looked stunning in the cave as we floated along in the dark.
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