So as if the Skydive wasn't enough, we had the adventure of the Waitomo Glow worm caves the next day!!! Basically, this involved getting dressed up in rediculous wet suites, white wellies, helmets and shorts... making us look somewhat like cyber ravers!! Karen spent a full 15 minutes laughing at me before she could even speak! Once kitted out, we got to choose a rubber inner-tube, which would be our companion underground. We were then dunked in a stream, to test our backwards jumping skills before we actually went underground. The actual caves were really cool. We walked and crouched and tripped our way through near blackness, with pretty strong currents of water rushing round our feet, followed by backwards jumps, with our bottoms stuck in the rings over 2 or 3 foot waterfalls. Pretty dramatic
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