Rap, Raft & Rock

Waitomo, New Zealand, 29 February 2008

We signed up with Rap, Raft & Rock for the full package and joined a group of 4 others to visit Waitomo Caves. We abseiled into the cave, went for a walk in complete darkness, sat in inflatable tubes and floated down an underground river looking up at the ceiling of the cave. It really was like looking up at the nights sky on a really clear night. Thousands of glowworms shown in the darkness forming unrecognisable constellations. It was really cool. Next we spent some time squeezing through tiny crevices (they call this caving) before finally rock climbing back out of the glowworm grotto. The fact it was raining above ground all day made us feel all the better.


Cave access point

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Abseil into the cave

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Geez, that was a tight squeeze


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Superman coming through!

Claire uses her own personal caving technique?!

Like shooting fish in a barrell

We Made it!

oustide the cave, some sheep having a bahhhd day