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Haunted B-day
Apparently every year I challenge the universe to find some new way to screw me on my birthday and every year the universe obliges. I thought for sure I was pulling out the stops this year with the whole being in NZ thing…but nope the universe found me and the universe plays hard ball.
After the lovely night of storms we awoke to a …
More Cavin...
We spent just one night in Waitomo visiting the famous glowworm caves. Tara had the bright idea that we pay $100 each to "Blackwater "Raft" " inside the caves. The idea sounded like it would be more fun than it turned out to be. First, they gave us wet, 5 mm wetsuits to put on on an already cold day. They then made us parade around in them like a …
Caving In
With a little apprehension, Julie signed up with me to do a Blackwater Cave Rafting expedition through Glow Worm Cave. This is a crawl, swim, float, climb trip through some wonderful caves, with pinpoint lights on the ceiling produced by 'glow worms'...as we learned, these are actually "maggots with luminous poo", but apparently touring Maggot …
The Secret of the Glow Worms
After the conference in the morning and picking up the car Mom and I set out to Waitomo to Black Water Rafting in the caves. It was great but they wouldn't let me bring my camera with - one of the guides had one but took generic pictures. It was great fun and I DIDN'T KILL MOM!!! She did great, we had wonderful guides who were very funny. We got a …
NZ Waitomo Caves - Phil goes in deep!
Waitomo Caves - stayed at Waitomo YHA. Nice room with bathroom & beautiful view. Bit pricey at $85 in comparison to other YHA but all the caving activity is on the doorstep...oh joy After three weeks in NZ it was time I had a go at something a little bit nutty. After warming up with Chantel's fella on quad bikes and kayak boats it was time to …