Waitomo Caves

It's 6:30 am and we are awaiting our flight from Auckland to Christchurch in the South Island. Everyone says the South Island is more beautiful but that's hard to imagine.

We spent 4 hours yesterday exploring the Waitomo Caves by boat and by foot. The little raft took the twelve of us to see the infamous glow worms. Really cool little insects. My camera phone couldn't catch the lights. It looks like a starry sky on a moonless night. The bioluminescence of these larvae in caves are only found here and a few places in Australia. The cave ceilings are covered with these glowing bugs.