Today we went to the Waitomo Glowworm caves. What an incredible experience! One of the tours took us through by boat into the dark caves to see the ceiling glowing with the tiny lights. The guides told us that for 9 months the glowworm stays in their pupa and sends out 10 to 20 'fishing lines' outside of his pupa to catch flies, mosquitos, etc. These lines that you can see in the first photo, are similar to a spiders web in that they have a sticky substance that the bug becomes stuck to and it takes the worm about 20 seconds to go down the line and reel his lunch in! We were underground on the second tour for 2 hours and it was cool to see all the calcium formations on the lime stone. We really wanted to do the three hour adventure tour where you wear wetsuits and float through the caves on tire tubes, but our timing was off:( We made it back to Auckland this evening and tomorrow we are off to see some penguins at the aquarium.
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