Waitomo - home to glow worm caves and possibly Hobbits
I’ll cut to the
chase here: we visited two caves in Waitomo where we saw glow worms. If you
don’t know what they are, then the name is a bit of a give-away. But they’re
actually larvae that cling to the cave ceilings, and are bio-luminescent so as
to attract prey. It’s only their livers that are glowing though, but in the
pitch black of a cave, it makes no difference. As we cruised up and down a cave
river in total darkness, we may as well have been looking at a constellation of
stars overhead. It was quite otherworldly.
