We left Rotorua easily and headed back west to Waitamo.  There are sections of caves that you can visit here.  Sue and I chose the Glowworm Cave and Aranui Cave.  Zoe went to all three Gloworm, Aranui and Ruakuri Caves.

I really thought this would be a money grab but was I wrong, yes the price is a bit steep but the tours are awesome and like nothing we’ve seen before.

The glowworm caves are dark and photos isn’t allowed.  In the other cave I did my best but the images are fairly grainy due to high ISO.

Cave Wetas – only wildlife in the caves

Sue and I had a bit of time to kill while we waited for Zoe’s final cave  tour to end and we went to a nearby Kiwi House.

Pacific Black Duck (Grey Duck)

Blue Duck

Cape Barren Goose

Sacred Kingfisher

Spur-winged Plover

Banded Rail

New Zealand Shoveler

Grey Teal

Weka

Brown Kiwi at 1.6 million ISO, yup near total darkness and I still got an image

On the way to pick up Zoe I found a few more new birds for the trip.

Song Thrush

A Wild Sacred Kingfisher

Another great day had by all….

Ciao for now