We got up to the caves nice and early for the 9am tour (supposedly the best of the day) and still managed to miss it! We hung around in the gift shop and joined the next tour, which was fine as there were hardly any other visitors. The new visitor's centre had just opened and all the big bosses were down for a visit.
The Waitomo glowworm, Arachnocampa luminosa, is unique to New Zealand. Thousands of these tiny creatures radiate their luminescent light in the caves. We've seen glow worms before but never in this quantity or brightness.
Later in the afternoon we went up to the farm at the end of the road that was advertising ostritch eggs for sale. The lady keeps nine ostritches on her property and we met Victoria, a beautiful, long-lashed female. They didn't have any full eggs to take away but we did buy some that was frozen (about 4 hen's eggs worth). We made some very rich-tasting omlettes with it. We would have liked to have bought one of the empty shells, but couldn't see us getting one home in one piece.
On the way back we drove into Woodlyn Park that has some 'unique' accomodation; hobbit holes, a plane, train and a ship.
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