Yet more shaking in Wellington; magnitude 6.5 this time. It was quite a different experience to before, until now I'd always been alone in my bedroom for them; this time I was near the top of a 400 person lecture. There was a small rumble then a huge jolt accompanied by a huge scream and everyone disappeared beneath their desks, I quickly followed suit.
A group of us went into the city afterwards, I've never seen it so busy! Everyone had left work but couldn't leave the city as the transport system was down.
Yesterday (Sunday) a group of 9 of us hired to cars and drove to Martinborough to visit the glow worm caves. In order to enter the caves we had to walk through very cold water and squeeze through a small gap. Once inside we turned off our torches and it was like looking at the night sky only the stars where slightly blue; it was beautiful. Sadly I couldn't capture them on camera.
Once out of the caves we clambered along a gorge then a group of us made our way (past many sheep) up the surrounding hills where the views were fantastic; everything is such an intense green here in New Zealand. Again I was frustrated at how things never look quite the same through a camera. Ho hum, you can kind of get an idea of what it was like from the picture below.
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