Mt Cook and Lake Pukaki

Mt Cook and Lake Pukaki
December 2012

Friday, December 14, 2012

Day 2- black water rafting

Sorry.  No pictures of that because it was a bit wet...little did we know our camera's life would soon be over...but more on that later.  Here is a link to the rafting website so you can get the idea.  Basically we got in wet suits and hiked to the caves but first they showed us how to jump backwards off a dock in our tube so we would know what to do when we got to a waterfall in the cave.  Then we climbed down into the caves and jumped in, there were parts we had to walk thru the water, lots of stalagmites and stalactites, waterfalls to jump into and at one point we all turned off our headlights to see the glow worms all over the cave.  It was like looking at stars in a clear sky.  The last stretch was completely dark and we had to wade our way to the opening and climb out of the cave.  Very fun time but I was ready for the hot soup and bagels they gave us at the end once we got out of our wetsuits.