Thursday, March 5, 2009

Waitomo Caves - Glow Worms

This is at the Waitomo Caves which are famous for the stalagtites, stalagmites and glow worms! We took a tour through the caves and then a boat ride in the dark to view the glow worms - it was unreal! It takes hundreds of thousands of years to create these stalagtites and stalagmites. They are created by the dripping of water from the ceiling of these caves. It takes something like a hundred years just to create a centimeter (or an inch, I can't remember) of these structures.





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