Monday, December 28, 2009

Evening Glow worms



Evening Glow worms

Later in evening Tracie and I returned to the Waimarino kayak park to go on a romantic kayak trip to see the glow worm caves. When we arrived there, we met the two guides and they had two kayaks loaded onto a trailer and we all drove to McLaren Falls which was at the head of the falls and our debarkation point. When we arrived we enjoyed some wine and cheese, then got suited up to go on the kayak. The weather was a cool 8 degrees Celsius, but the water was still and the moon cast a glow across the lake. I has been about 20 years since Tracie and I shared a kayak so we were a little rusty but after 5 minutes we were paddling in rhythm and heading towards the rapids and river to the glow worm caves. After a little navigational error we found the caves which would have been pitch black except for the millions of glow worms emitting their phosphorous glow from their tails. As it turns out they weren’t really worms at all but spiders. In any event it looked like the we were in the middle of the milky way galaxy travelling through space.

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