Having been the first to arise from my slumbers I enjoyed a walk among the sheep before breakfast. Our agenda for the day was to visit the Waitomo caves which are the home to thousands of glowworms. we booked onto the twelve o'clock tour and were son greeted by our rather odd tour guide. after attempting but falling to say hello to all the tourists in their various languages we were guided into the depths if the cave. The cave has now been returned to it's original owners having been discovered when a Maori chief paddled his canoe into the caves and cane across thousands of little green lights. Inside the limestone cave is a huge cavern nicknamed the "cathedral" where several choirs have performed beneath the stalactites and stalagmites. glowworms are not in fact worms
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