New Zealand (4) - to the West Coast

On Saturday, we were joigned by Jason, a New Yorker, arrived in New Zealand 2 days ago, after 3 weeks in Australia. Beginning of his 7 month all-over-the-world trip.
A couple, met by Cal in the Church on Sunday morning, offered us hospitality. What a pleasure to sleep in a bed! The back seat of the car is not what we made the most comfortable...
Have taken yesterday morning (Monday) the direction of the West Coast. Still so many sheep. Fields of sheep! There would have been up to 70 million sheep some tens years ago; there are only about 45 million today! for a population of about 4.2 million New Zealanders (plus some 2 million overseas).
On each side of the road, the landscape is alike: flat fields of grass, separated by alignements of pines (probably windscreens), and also sometimes fields of apparently cabbages, some hills, and in the distance mountains, often brownish, sometimes more verdant.

After a rainy morning, the sun reappared.
We arrived in the end of the afternoon in Te Anau, just in time to book fo the Te Anau Glowworm Caves Exploration. First an half-an-hour scenic cruise across beautiful Lake Te Anau, the New Zealand's second largest lake, which lays more than 200 metres above sea level. Disambarking by night and visit of the Caves, within which a guide made us discover these strange inhabitants which are the glowworms. In a complete obscurity, hundreds of tiny green points seemed to hang above our heads, as as many stars in a summer night sky. The Caves are also remarkable by the passages and tunnels that a mildly acid river has dug in the limestone, over 12,000 years.
NB: No photos, because not allowed, especially in order not to disturb the glowworms.