Nov2 Friday Rotorua to Waitomo 98 miles 3.5 hrs. After an 8:30 am road briefing we travel through Keneith forest then rolling hills with more sheep and cattle. We arrive at Waitomo top 10 Holiday park around 10:30 . After lunch we walk up to an Angora rabbit shearing shed. At 1:45 we car pool to the Waitomo glow worm caves. We enter limestone caves with stalacites and stalagmites and as our eyes grow accustomed to the dark we see a milky way of little lights surrounding us. These are glow worms. Glow worms are match stick sized in larva stage of the fungus gnat ( a relative to the mosquito) Which attach itself to the cave and produces around 20-30 mucus and silk threads or “fishing lines” which hang down a few centimeters. Drawn by the highly effective chemical light , midges and flying insects get ensnarled in the thread and the glow worm draws on the line to eat the insect. Ruakuri cave is the cave we go to. We have dinner at the park café.