Cave Spelunking (by the kids)

Hi! This is Elliott, and I will tell you a bit about spelunking. I saw lots of animals, like bats, spiders, a tarantula, lots of crickets, and a scorpion spider. The crickets had very long spider legs, and they were very creepy.

We also had to squeeze through a foot long and a foot wide hole.  It was a tight squeeze, but everyone except mom fit. Then, we had to climb up a three foot wall into a small room. Finally, me and dad had to slide on our bellies for three or four feet to get out. 

 

We also saw the oldest formation in the cave, the altar. Our guide said that it is more than twenty three million years old! We also saw the Papaya, another cave formation. 

This is Wesley: My favorite thing I did was seeing the spiders crickets and bats.

Hey, it’s Lorelei! Cave spelunking was fun, even though at parts it seemed like you were going to be stuck underground for the rest of eternity. I found the cave crickets insanely interesting, despite the fact that they were creepy looking. The bats were so cute!! Anyway, my favorite part of the cave was the birth canal. If the name didn’t give it away already, it was basically a foot wide hole in the side of the cave that lead to a small vertical shaft. After you’ve gotten through the hole, you had to climb about ten feet on smooth, slippery rock to get to a smaller round room. You would squeeze through another hole, into an even smaller room, and then a smaller one, and finally come to the final room. This one you had to shimmy through a thin horizontal tunnel, and then slide back into the main cave. Anyway, I really enjoyed cave spelunking, even if I was stuck inside a rock!

Spelunking Exploration Video (For Grandma Cindy)

Crawlspace just barely enough to keep head out of water while moving through the tunnels.