Waitomo black water rafting!

On 3, fake a smile!

Nic looks like a PRO!

Believe it or not there is a hole down there that we fit into!

Even in practice I work the pout

Can you believe it, everyone was English except Patrick

So far we have counted that we have done 51 of the 101 Must Dos for Kiwis, so in our last few days we decided to do the 52nd, the Waitomo caves. These caves are a series of underground caves that go on for quite some distance, and have a stream running through it, and full of amazing glowworms! We met up again with Patrick, our American friend from Napier, as he had done the trip before and wanted to do it again. We got kitted out in wetsuits and boots and helmets and even balaclavas, to finish off our sexy ensemble. The start of the morning involved an abseil to enter the caves, through the teeny tiniest of holes. So we had to make our way town the 37m rope to the bottom of the cave, which we mastered! Then we had a 'flying fox', which is where you're attached to a zip line and you travel from one side of the cave to the other, in complete dark, except for the ceiling being alight with glowworms. Then we each grabbed a rubber ring and had to jump in the freezing water, still sat on the ring, and we made our way upstream. We turned all our lights off and just floated back just taking in all the light of the glowworms, it was crazy! We got rid of the rings and then it was just walking, and sliding, and going on our hands and knees through caves, trying not to get swept away by the water! It was awesome, and even finished off by climbing up 2 waterfalls, which I now realise, is possible....especially when you have a guide to push your bum up the cave wall, for that extra much needed boost!