We were just driving along, minding our own business, when we stumbled across this random waterfall!
Mt Ngauruhoe, AKA: Mount Doom
Somewhere up in those clouds is Mount Doom. It seems appropriate that we couldn’t see it due to cloudy weather. We stopped at a pul-off for lunch in the hope that we’d see the clouds lift. It never did.
This road was pretty epic to drive.
Heading down from the high mountain plain, we went through rolling farm country.
And even saw a rainbow!
Glowworm Cave
After having gone on the previous cave tour and getting up close and personal with glowworms, Kristen and I found it a bit of a let-down to do the actual Glowworm Cave tour. After being shuffled through some uninspiring caves, we were loaded onto an aluminum boat with 20 or so other people and sent through a water-filled cave where we couldn’t take pictures. The above photo is looking out down the river where we exited.
The boat that we took through the cave. Seriously. If you’re going to this area, check out the other cave rather than this one. This cave was cool and all but the other was way better.