It’s a public holiday today in celebration of the Queen’s birthday. So we got-up early and were out of the house by 08.00 to travel 1½hrs south of Auckland to Nikau caves   where we had arranged a 10.00 tour of the caves. Nikau caves is set on a private farm and guided tours are given by arrangements by the farm owner. This is a propers cave, health and safety takes a little bit of a back seat, no so much to be unsafe but not so all pervasive that you feel like you don’t need to keep you wits about you. Continue reading →