We are looking for a
Legacy Investor
who will become a part owner of our conservation, recreation park, including the Milky Way Glowworm Cave.

We expect that the Legacy investor will be a high wealth individual or family who has desire to contribute to a special conservation project which also has outdoor recreation and education for schools and youth as a key focus.

The jewel of the park is the Milky Way Glowworm Cave, a walk-in show-cave which gives people the opportunity to experience the underworld filled with delicate crystal formations and get a close up experience with glowworms.

The Milky Way Glowworm Cave, part of a 3km cave system entirely within the park has 2 large chambers where educational tours are run.  The second chamber 250m into the hillside is called the Starburst Cathedral and in addition to tours, we have musical concerts here, several times a year. 

The Milky Way Glowworm Cave was kept secret for more than 100 years, until being opened in 2023 by Ian Fox, to share the beauty of the caves and the glowworms to the world, as well as provide a learning experience for people, and generate revenue to develop the conservation & recreation park.

To put the uniqueness of the Milky Way Glowworm Cave in perspective, glowworms are only in New Zealand and Australia.  There a few caves in Australia with glowworms, but in New Zealand almost all caves have glowworms.  Many caves are on private property, and they often require you to wear a wetsuit, helmet, ropes, and squeezing through holes or abseil into vertical shafts or slide through mud.  The park also has caves like this. 

in NZ, a small number are set up for adventure caving, needing wetsuits for immersion in passages filled with water, and maybe harnesses for doing vertical sections.  There are also a small number that are set up for low adventure, and perhaps, could be best described as a gumboot tour, needing visitors to wear gumboots or a hardhat and maybe a fleece or rain coat, but do not require a wetsuit and swimming , crawling or groveling in mud, but may require walking in a shallow bit of water, (not over your boots), or maybe bending over for a short way, and may have age or fitness restrictions.

There are only 8 caves in New Zealand set up for

walk-in show-cave tours.  Meaning visitors can just wear standard travelling clothes, but maybe wear their own jacket for a warmer layer if needed. 

At least 5 are Government or Iwi or jointly owned.

2 of the 8 do not have glowworms and 1 of these requires hard hats.

6 have glowworms, and 3 of these would be the best displays, each for different reasons.

The Milky Way Glowworm Cave is one of these, for it's close up experience all the way through the cave, and also for it's display in 2 large chambers. There is no boat inside the cave, though, which the other 2 best glowworm displays do have. 

The Milky Way Glowworm Cave the only one entirely contained in a single privately owned property. 

It is also the closest walk-in glowworm show-cave to Auckland and is a major tourist attraction for Northland.

With these qualifiers in mind, the Milky Way Glowworm Cave is the only walk-in glowworm show-cave in the world in single private ownership.  It requires a special care and respect for its conservation.