Our first visit was to the Glowwarm Caves. Sam and I were last here about 10 yrs ago. Since then the visitor centre has been completely redesigned and rebuilt (after a fire), and it looks fantastic.
Also a great spot for a photo of the kids.
The Glowwarm Cave tour takes you underground through a series of caverns checking out the stalactites and stalagmites. After about 35 minutes of checking them out you hop in some boats on the river at the bottom of the cave and they guide pulls the boat through the cave through ceilings packed with glowwarms.
I even managed to get a picture of them.
And a picture with their fishing lines out to catch water born insects from the cave.
After a bite to eat we headed off to the Ruakurri Cave.
This was absolutely stunning. We were in the cave for about 1.5 hrs. I swear I took more photos in that 1.5hrs than I've taken on the whole trip so far.
The trip starts by descending into the cave via a spiral pathway.
The pictures still don't do it justice, but I'll add a couple in here anyway. We would walk into one cavern and go wow, then the next one and go wow, and then the next one etc. 1.5 hrs was gone in a snap.
Definitely a trip highlight for the whole family.
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