Rotorua
June 4th 2007 Kia ora!
On our way to Rotorua, we stopped at Waitomo where I went to see the glowworm caves. As well as the usual stalactites and stalagmites, these caves are home to many glow-worms. Glow-worms are very strange animals; they are larvae that live suspended from cave ceilings and weave sticky threads which trail down and catch flying insects attracted by their luminescent organs. The insect gets
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