We loved the epic Lost World all day caving adventure. It started with a 100 meter rapell down into the canyon (that’s a 30 story building, people!) We had lunch at the bottom of the cave, then strapped on the headlamps and took off for hours of cave exploring, including rock climbing, spider-walking, inching along narrow rock ledges, wading and swimming through underground rivers. There were lots of underground waterfalls, and even an opportunity for Mike to dive from a 8 meter rock ledge into a pool. We saw eels and cave spiders (I didn’t look, but Mike saw them). The best part was kicking back with our headlamps off for 20 minutes and taking in the glow worms. After our eyes adjusted to the dim light they gave off, we could actually see each other in a completely dark cave! It was an amazing day.
Are you sure you two aren’t helping film a Mission Impossible movie! Looks as though you are having big fun- thanks for sharing the wonders down under! (NZ, that is!) – Laura
Yeah, they really have a lot of ways to kill yourself in New Zealand, huh? If you can’t find adventure here, then you’re just not looking. Not sure what we’ll have left to do in Australia :)
We thought the waterfall caving trip in Belize would be hard to top but this excursion seems to have it beat handily. Belize also had the spider climbing, underground waterfalls, etc, but there sure wasn’t a spot to dive 8 meters (at least not if you expected to walk out).
With the rappell included you actually did in one trip what took us two in Belize. The first was a 290 ft. rappell into a jungle sinkhole and the next day came the waterfall caving.
You both got the two for one special….what a deal!!
Mike said there were huge spiders in Belize…so that trip is still safe for the guys…I’m not interested in spiders, that’s for sure!