Just a quick update as we happened to get on the internet again.
After we last posted, we had our trip to the glow worm caves. This involved another boat trip, this time across Lake Te Anau. It took about half an hour to get to the Tunnel Burn – the river that comes out of the caves.
To start, we got to watch a lovely slide show about, well, bugs. It showed how the glow worms develop, catch flies, including slow motion shots of them eating their prey. I’m thinking it might have been better to watch this afterwards?!
We were taken into the caves in groups of 12, and told to mind our heads. It was very low and quite hard to walk at some points. We had a short walk along the river, and then a boat trip into the ‘glow worm grotto’. Now this sounds much much nicer than it is in reality! But lets face it, the reality is fly larvae glowing in the dark! And when I say dark, I mean it. And I have a slight problem with the dark! And with bugs. So it was right up my street!!!
It was an interesting experience though. Jonny had to keep telling me to be quiet, as I always forget people can still hear in the dark and I was loudly proclaiming how much I didn’t like it!!
Back out through the cave, we got to see an eel in the river. It just kept getting better and better!!!
After that, we took the boat back and then we headed back to the farm. We have had a lazy day today, and think we’re heading with Gill to Invercargill tomorrow.
Jill
