Waitomo is full of amazing limestone caves and best of all these caves are full of glow worms and underground rivers-- making for amazing trips literally down under....
unfortunately it is nearly impossible to capture the beautiful glow worms on a digital camera... so you will just have imagine taking a trip down a subterranean river on an old wooden boat with ceiling aglow with little blue green stars shimmering above...
We did get some pretty awesome pictures of the limestone formations though...
a welcome from a lovely cave dweller
Stalactites/stalagmites grow about .005" per year.. so it takes a very long time for these delicate sculptures to become what we see today
a most beautiful ribbon-like stalactite
bumpy coral-esque
popcorn!
glow worm's setting out there web like bait for food
fossils found during excavation
joe astounded!
an amazing cathedral like room filled with stalactites & stalagmites(in fact in one area of the cave they actually put on concerts because of the great sound effects... many groups from the Vienna Boys Choir to Kenny Rogers (??) have performed there [we werent allowed to take pictures of the cave])
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