We’ve arrived in Te Anau today as this is the best place to stay for trips to Milford and Doubtful Sounds. It’s a ghost town. I swear, 3 out of 4 restaurants and shops look like they are open; they have outdoor tables and chairs out, and menus on display like someone just shut up shop for lunch but never came back… On closer inspection there are small signs on the doors that don’t say “back in 30mins” but “closed for winter”.
There was a trip to a Glow Worm cave on so we decided to try this. We needed to take a fast boat across the lake for about 30mins to get there (this is the picture attached). I have no photographic evidence of this as you can’t take pictures in the caves. You walk for about 10mins in the dark in a wet cave before stepping into a small wooden boat. Still in the dark at this stage and you can not make a sound the tour operator pulls the boat through the remainder of the cave via a rope pulley. Then when you get to the glow worms it’s like looking up at a star installation. Thousands of tiny lights that the boat pulls you up towards so you face is only inches away. It’s truly magical until after the trip back in the main building where they play you a video of the lifecycle of glow worm and you realise your face was within inches of the slimy, sticky, gooey little blighters.
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