We had a great day yesterday. We left kind of early, but everyone was there on time. We boarded the bus about 8:30 and headed out through the beautiful countryside of Southwestern Indiana. It was green and lush as it usually is. We headed north east for a little over two hours and arrived at an interesting building in the middle of no place. The entrance to the cave was a very very steep hill which emptied out onto a little "whitewater" river that was flowing off the cave water. It was very pretty.
Then we moved toward the boats. The boats were flat bottomed and steered by some kind of battery operated system. There were not lights in the cave save the flashlights and some little boat lights. Each boat held about 16 people seated. The cave was not deep for adults, but for children, the water would have been dangerous. Everyone had a flotation pillow and our ratio for non swimmers was about one adult to one child.
We headed into a very very dark cave on the boat and went under some low hanging stalactites and cliff hangings. It was very scary at first, but everyone seemed to enjoy the excursion. We passed a lot of interesting rock formations, and our guide told us about several of them. We saw white blind fish and crayfish in the cave that live there.
We experienced "total" darkness and a huge echo and total silence. The combination of total lightless and soundless put me to sleep. I supposed at the time that my life is too filled with noise and visuals for total soundless and lightless to be anything but a body disturbance.
They told us the entire cave should be bright white inside, but because of the mud left by glaciers, it would always be mud covered. I would like to see what it looked like white.
We climbed back UP the hill after the cave tour and bought some rocks for our science collection. Then it was back on the bus to Martin County Forest. Miss Sandy eeny meenyied the four roads and we landed in a most wonderful sunless playground under a canopy of trees and we ate a nice picnic lunch and played on the playground. Miss Jenny, Emily's mom, did some yoga moves for us and we all played with her trying to keep up. We have pictures later.
Our trip home was uneventful. Miss Judy won the sleeping lottery. There were 13 children asleep at Oakland City.
This would be something to do again next year if we had something else to do as well. Once you've seen this, unlike Mammoth, it has only one cave tour.
Have a brilliant weekend...
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