Glow Worm Caves at Te Anau and Doubtful Sound

We left Queenstown and headed to Te Anau. Te Anau is the location of the Glow Worm Caves. These worms live in the dark as pupas and give off a small amount of light inthe total darkness to attract bugs for food. After about a year as a pupa, the worms turn in to an insect that mates for two days, lays its eggs, and then dies. We could not take pictures of the worms as to not distrube them.

After a day in Te Anau, we left for a boat overnight on Doubtful Sound. Doubtful Sound is a glacer created inlet that is absolutely amazing. It is in a wilderness area that has been well preserved. Here we had the opportunity to kayak on the sound, swim in its chilly waters or take a motor launch cruies in one of the coves.

The pictures are of Gerogia on the boat to the Glow Worm Caves at Te Anau, Doubtful Sound from the road at the end of the sound, Doubtful Sound landscape, Hugh swimming in the 55 degree waters of Doubtful Sound, and final picture is of a tree slide in Doubtful Sound. Note: There is little or no soil on the slopes of the sound, so the trees and plants are held up by intertwining of the roots. Once one tree falls, it creats a landslide of all of the plant material below it.