Clifden Cave

This was so cool it deserves its own entry!
West of Invercargill is a small underground adventure called Clifden Cave. You enter a simple hole in the ground and exit another hole just 300m down the road- but you travel about a mile underground through the limestone caves! There was lots of crouching, squeezing through tight passages, climbing up and down, and halfway we came upon a couple german tourists who told us "the way is blocked, there is a lake". They were right, there is an underground pool, about 8 feet wide, maybe 5 feet deep, with no obvious way across. But we came prepared, having done our research! At the left side of the pool there is a ledge just under the water, no more than 5 inches wide, but its angled and easy to slip into the pool and be soaked. We just took our sweet time and by some miracle made it across without falling in. The rest of the cave was easier with lots of stalactites and stalagmites, and an underground waterfall.