Loads more beautiful country side to drive through.Stopped at Otorohanga where they had a small street market and bought some no-yeast bread and boysenberry jam.
Arrived at Waitomo and booked a cave tour with SpellBound. A 15 minute drive took us to the glow worm cave. 
We walked the last 10 minutes down the hillside in the rain and were handed ours helmets and lights by Norm our guide.
Victoria (8 years old) led us into the cave. Norm told us to mind the "Oh Bugger" rock near the entrance.
A short while in, Norm got us to turn our lights off – it was pitch dark – we could not see our hands in front of our faces.
We walked on and found some glow worms (maggots really). We could see how they capture flying insects with thread about 6 inches long with little beads of sticky every couple if millimeters. I spotted a little moth get caught by one of the thread and then we watched as it was slowly winched up, millimeter by millimeter, by the glow worm.
We took a boat ride and saw more thousands more glow worms. It was like boating under the stars. It was actually quite bright just these tiny lights given out by these worms. We then turned the boat round before going over a waterfall. After the boat ride, we were told not to turn on our lights and navigate out of the cave using our senses and by holding on to the person in front. It was fun and it was dark too!
We were given refreshment and biscuits and then headed to the next cave. It was a traditional one with stalagmites and stalactites. There was no lighting in the cave. This was to ensure that there was no green algae' growing on the rock. It had a small cathedral, which was formed by 3 waterfalls coming through the sides of the wall.
We also found some old bones, sheep and a moa. The Moa was buried over 800 years old. These animals must have fallen down the hole, injured and starved to death.
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