Getting wet underground

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By the end of the day we reached Waitomo Caves which is a very small town. We were here as the same suggests to go caving. We booked the caving for the following day then headed out for a drive to some local attractions. All the guide books talk about Piripiri caves which are free to look at. After an hour of very twisty roads we came across the caves and realised they were not worth it. On the way back we stopped at several other spots and saw some much nicer stuff.
The weather the following morning must have been the best for weeks and where are we going, underground. Couldn’t have planned it better myself. There was 6 of us in all. We started by abseiling into the cave system then walking up an underground river to see the millions of glow worms that lived in the caves. We then get given a tube and speed off into the black abyss twisting and turning in the underground river rapid system. After a couple of hours of getting cold and wet we surfaced again by climbing back out the way we had come in. The local farmer then decided that we all needed to grow as he had chosen today to dust the fields in fertiliser. He managed to get us three times so I should have grown at least an inch by now. Totally knackered we stayed another night in Waitomo before heading up towards the Northern Cape

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