Te Anau Caves is on the shoreline of the Murchison Mountains, this was exciting because a few km into the hills is the home of the New Zealand Takahe.
Entrance to the cave.
The cave extends 6km up into the mountains from Lake Orbil, however the tour only explores 250m of that. Apparently there is one small section that is 9m long that can only be scuba dived.
This asian man was wearing a gas mask - it just looked so out of place with fiordland being one of the cleanest freshest areas on earth.
16 January 2011
People have been visiting this part of the Aurora cave since at least 1938 just the way we did this afternoon. We walked through some tight areas of limestone cave along a walkway before jumping in a boat. In the boat it was pitch dark and there were thousands and thousands of glowworms EVERYWHERE as we explored some areas of cave by water.
I have visited hundreds of limestone caves before but this is the first where I have seen so many glowworms and had such a high volume stream running through it.
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