Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Glow, Little Glowworm, Glow

We arrived in Waitomo this afternoon and checked out the Glowworm Cave and the Arauni Cave. The glowworms are unlike any insect we've ever seen before. After walking through some pretty amazing caves of stalactites and stalagmites, we boarded a boat and floated down an underground river. Above us were thousands of tiny, green lights that looked like stars in the night sky. Those little lights were the glowworms! It was an amazing site. Unfortunately photography was not allowed in this cave. You’ll just have to use your imagination. =)

The next cave we explored was the Aranui Cave. This cave didn’t have any water running through it. So there were no glowworms. But there were lots of colorful stalactites hanging from the cathedral-like ceiling. If you use your imagination, you can see a village of little people, a bunch of carrots and one parsnip in the picture. Can you see them?

3 comments:

John said...

This is one of the things we thought about, but opted out of. It seemed like it might be kind of scary...

Anonymous said...

John: I hope you're you referring to the Black Water Rafting and not the Glowworm Caves. Glowworm Caves was not scary at all. With the Black Water Rafting, I was a bit freaked out about repelling 90 ft into a dark cave. But it turned out to be okay and quite fun!

John said...

No, I meant glow worms. Bugs creep me out. Especially in pitch black caves.