Waitomo

We spent a few days in Waitomo, which is famous for it's glow worm caves and the only reason we visited! On the way out of Taupo however, Rich was pulled over by the police for speeding!! He was clocked doing 94 in a 70 (that's km's not miles!), I think he may've let Rich off if it wasn't for the fact that he drove past the 70 sign at 94!!! He was lenient though as he only booked Rich for 89 which meant a lesser fine, although it was still $120. Fortunately though, their points system has no effect on ours, otherwise Rich would've been in trouble!!!

So, about the only thing we did in Waitomo was a spot of caving. We went on a black water adventure or something like that!! It involved clambering through caves, over rocks and through tunnels, it was dark (we had lights on hard hats) and at some points we were waist deep in very chilly water (also had wetsuits and wellies!) and others we had to swim or had these black rubber rings to float on!! The caves ceiling was littered with glow worms which looked cool....when the lights were all off it was like looking up at a starry sky, except the little lights were blue!! It was all good fun :-)

While we were in Waitomo, we called Rob and Judith (guys who taught us to dive in Fiji) as they'd mailed and said they were in Auckland and were laying down some roots for a while. Waitomo is not too far from Auckland, and Rob and Judith had said we could crash at their flat for as long as we wanted, so we decided to go back there to catch up with them and spend a few days hanging out with them.....so off we went agian....to Auckland!