After we left our little cottage in Taupo we headed west to Waitomo... but I will get to that in a minute... on the way we went to the Orakei Korako Geothermal Field.
New Zealand is a super active place in terms of volcanic and seismic activity. This was a place that was just super full of geysers, sulfurous flows, fault scarps, and silica terraces. And since I love geology this was the place for me!
There was also tons of native forest with fern trees and roots and vines and lots of I love everywhere.
And boiling mud pits... what could be better?
In all actuality I was very sick this day, I came down with a cold or flue or something and my throat hurt, I couldn't really breath, and I had no energy... so I was kinda miserable the whole time and it was very sad... but I didn't really have time to be too sad cause our next adventure was just around the corner. We continued on our way to Waitomo like I said earlier... which is famous for its GLOW WORM CAVES! Derick and I took tour through the glow worm caves (which are filled with water) on TUBES. We got wetsuits and inner tubes and floated through the most magical world I have ever seen. There were places where we had to walk, other where we had to jump off waterfalls, and still others where the guides tricked Derick into standing up where it was really deep and he went under in pitch black, freezing cold, eel infested waters! But mostly we just floated with cathedral ceiling aglow in a ethereal blue light! AMAZING! We did our tour through the Backwater Rafting Co. and although we were not allowed to bring cameras "for safety reasons" (which means they want us to buy a cd of their photos) I stole these off the internet!
So in the end all drugged up on Ibuprofen and Pseudoephedrine I had a fantastic three hours exlporing the Waitomo Glowworm Caves!
This is what the glowworms look like up close... they are a bunch of fly larva on the ceiling that produce bioluminescent mucus... to attract prey which they catch in their glowing snot string!
But this is what they look like from the tubes... like the heavens!
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Do you know what that sound is highness? Those are the shriking eels. . .
Wow, so cool. Too bad when you get the "pregnant glow" while pregnant, that it doesn't look like this.
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