It had started to rain and we were a little worried about the next day, when we intended to do a boattrip in the sound.
Having arrived at Te Anau we booked our Ship together with a short trip to the Te Anau Glowworm Caves (@ all who study biology: Yes, you hear right: glowworms and not fireflies! It's a larva of a fly (Arachocampa luminosa). It makes a nest of sticky threads and atrackts food with its glow.)
Until the next boat would take us to the caves, we visited Takahes. A endangered flightless bird, that was believed extinct until its rediscovery in 1948...
We crossed Lake Te Anau and entered the Glowworm Caves. As it was not allowed to take pictures in the cave, we have only this illegal picture of Flo at the entrance... (After the tour you could buy a cd with pictures of the caves for $30. That's probably one of the reasons, why we couldn't photograph in the cave.)
But what we saw inside was really amazing. After walking a short distance through the cave we reached a big pool where we entered a small boat. The tourguide then took us through the pitch black darkness of the cave that was broken by the greenbluish light of the glowworms. The small glowing dots at the cave ceiling looked like a starry sky. It was really an awesome experience. Unseen before!
Leaving the cave, the wheater cleared up and we saw an amazing rainbow that filled us with hope.
Today we had wonderful weather and apart from some white clouds which hanged in the mountains we had blue sky.
Our first stop on the way up to Milford Sound was the Mirror Lakes.
Arriving at Milford Sound we boarded our ship around 12:00 and started this trip into the breathtaking fiord.
We saw seals...
... and some waterfalls very close up.
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| Where is Oli at the Stirling Falls? |
It was really the perfect thing to do on the day that we are together since precisely 90 months!
Well, and we (Oli) had also some fun on the way back! :D
2 Kommentare:
Wow, it looks just beautiful! :) I need to see Milford Sound for my own :P
Weird, I've never heard of glowworms... apparently, what you've seen, exists only in NZ! But the first time you wrote about glowworms you did mean Glühwürmchen...? I'm confused :P Because according to wikipedia Glowworms are "Pilzmücken". What the hell xD I bet it was fascinating :D
Enjoy the rest of your trip!
Carmen
Pilzmücken?? :-D Never heard of that!
Wow, that Glowworm Cave must have been some experience! Otherwordly! Did you feel like Bilbo in Gollum's cave? Or like Harry Potter hunting for that necklace horcrux?
Hey, on our flight to England we saw a whole rainbow, a raincircle, in the clouds. :-D That was amazing, too! But yours is quite pretty as well.
And such a nice couple you make! ;-)
Lots of love!
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