Today, bright and early, I headed off for a two hour drive to Waitomo, home of the legendary caves and gloworms. Very excited - first bit of adventure in a while and the first time I've been caving. Not looking forward to the wetsuit - however seeing as I'll be white water rafting tomorrow as well, I'd better get used to it. First things first - we're greeted by Aaron, a Kiwi of supreme dry humour, and Terry, who looks like Sportacus from Lazy Town (or for anyone local to Burnham/Highbridge - Steve Wills). There were 12 or so I guess of us, all not really knowing what we were about to do, other than get in a cave and see gloworms. We're equipped with wetsuits, booties, crash helmets with headlamps and jackets, for which these
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