The Tahune Airwalk and Hastings Caves and Thermal Spa

The Tahune Airwalk is a bland visitor attraction where you walk on a metal walkway elevated into the treetops. It takes ages to get there down painful gravel roads, and isn’t that impressive when you get there. What’s more it pissed down with rain the whole time I was up there and I did it on my own because I’d lost Aimee and Marie in the giftshop. I would say that it’s a complete waste of money.
I would say it’s a total waste of money, but seeing as we sneaked in without paying, it actually constitutes pretty good value for money. I still didn't enjoy it though - I was having a "hard to please" day.

The next disappointment was the Thermal Spa at Hastings. It was fucking freezing! So cold in fact that we were the only ones stupid enough to go in. People looked at us like we were lunatics - although I'll concede they might have just been looking at me as I'd forgotten my swimming trunks and was going in wearing my boxer shorts.

Once we had chilled our body core temperatures down to suspended animation level in the (Hypo)Thermal Spa we went into the caves down the road.

Now these impressed me! A lot.

The caves are 40 million years old, which predates hard bodied life on earth, hence they contain no fossils. There are so many chambers and caverns all packed to the ceiling (and floor) with stalactites and stalagmites. I've never seen caves this impressive and so well maintained and preserved before, and it made the whole day worthwhile. The only downer was most of my photos were crap, but I guess you can't have everything!