Glengariff 1877 Hamilton
235 Kaipaki Road Hamilton, North Island, New Zealand
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Ein perfekter Tag
... und Russischen Halbrassen ausgetauscht hatten. :P
Nachdem wir am Ausgangspunkt der Nachtwanderung unser Abendessen gekocht hatten, machten wir uns in den Finsteren Wald auf. Dort begegneten wir gleich zu Beginn einem Opossum, das sich beinahe anfassen ließ. Felix blieb noch unerträglich lang enttäuscht dass er es nicht geschafft hatte, das wuschelige Fell zu streicheln.
Die Strecke wird nicht umsonst als abwechslungsreichste Wanderung ...
A more fun version of The Underground
... caves, and then we were made to queue up, although for what we didn't know... One instructor clipped you in and then turned his headtorch off before sending you flying through the cave in the pitch black on a flying fox, to be caught at the other end by another guide. It was great fun although strange to be completely unable to see where you were going.
After a quick snack stop, we were given a rubber tube and told to jump into it from ...
Waitomo - home of the Glowworms
... We'd decided already that we wanted to save our money for some of the other activities at later stops so this was a pretty quiet and chilled out stop for us.
En route to Waitomo we stopped off for a quick walk around the Karangahake Reserve. Here we got a great introduction to the limestone rock formations, caves, forest and rivers. It's an old gold mining gorge which still has the old railway tracks and ...
The Black Labyrinth
... lays the eggs on the cave ceiling by flying around for a day or two and then she dies of exhaustion. So they both die within about 4 days of emerging from the pupae. Kieran finished by summing it up nicely: so they are basically carnivorous, cannibalistic flies that have glow in the dark poo and shag each other to death… We then ventured onwards, sloshing though the rushing river and doing some floating. We soon came to the “the big one” – the 5m ...
Spectacular Sights Underground
... made it look like one is looking into the milkyway. What is a glowworm? It is a larvae that is fishing for bugs to eat. The glow attracts the bugs and gets snared in the sticky 'fishing' lines. We coasted on the boat for 15 minutes in darkness and complete silence. Ah the beauty!
Our second cave was the culturally significant Ruakuri Cave (very important for the Maoris). The Ruakuri Cave is 70m below ground where our guided tour led ...


