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Article: Unusual excursion through cave includes wet suits, glowworms.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- September 25, 2000
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WAITOMO, New Zealand _ It's a cliche but a good one. Nothing can describe the glowworms on the cave walls and ceiling above the underground river as well as saying they look like constellations of stars.
Yet the Milky Way never looked this bright on its best night, or this massive and close. And no one has viewed the stars while drifting through the blackness in an inner tube on a river 200 feet underground.
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