Yesterday we went to the Waitomo caves to do some black water rafting. This involved first Abseiling into the caves about 27m, thsis was really fun. Then we got to look around the caves a bit, the best thing about this was that they were full of Glow worms they were so pretty, the worst part was the cold water in the leaky boots and the spiders and eels! After this we got to do some tubing which is basically floating through the caves on a big rubber ring, i was hoping this part might be a little more thrilling but it was quite relaxing laying back and looking at the glow worms. Next we did some caving which involved climbing through lots of small spaces and having some really horrible pictures taken of you struggling out the other end, but it was really good fun! We also got chocolate and hot orange which was real good. Then Finally we had to Rock clim out of the cave, which was luckily not too hard as we were quite knackered at this point as you have to walk against the flow of the water a lot of the time. We all really enjoyed it though.
In the evening we planned to go into the town for dinner but it turned out to be a lot smaller than we thought, there wasn't even an atm machine! But we went to the local pub (which was more like a community centre) and we had a roast followed by apple pie mmm our first roast since we have been away so it was pretty yummy. When the kareoke started though we left pretty quick! Next stop Auckland. Hope you are all well.
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