Going Underground - Blogabond

June 9
We diverted off the path to Jens house to go to Wiatomo Caves. Here James went black water rafting, this involved James putting on a wetsuit and picking out the right size inner tube to fit around his bum.

I'm the one with blue shorts!

The group then went off into a little hole in the ground. The group followed an underground river with a cold temperature of 10 degrees, through lots of caves and tons of glowworms. At certain parts the water ran very fast and sat in the inner tubes the sharp cave walls and stalactites zoomed by. We were underground for approximately for 1 1/2 hours and with no gloves and lots of paddling in the cold water he was ready to get out.

During this time Trace and Jen had a more serene as Jen had a broken toe and Trace didn't fancy the freezing water. They went for some lunch in a warm cafe and caught up on some gossip. We went for a little walk following a blue coloured post, until we lost the post, as we were nattering too much so just headed back to the car.
After picking James up we drove the 180km or so to Taupo. To break up the journey we had dinner in a pub which happened to be showing the All Blacks against France. New Zealanders are very passionate about the All Blacks. Jen had offered to buy us dinner and ordered it from the bar, however she forgot to order her own dinner, but fortunately there was enough to go round with the 2 that were brought out.
We continued on our journey and arrived back at Jens house in Palmerston North at about 12.30pm.

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James & Tracey on June 9, 2007 from Waitomo Caves, New Zealand

from the travel blog: James & Tracey World Tour

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