Norman Cave
God’s creation is truly unbelievable, even when viewed by the dim gloom of a flashlight far underground. It is made even more wonderful by the fact that one had to crawl through narrow, wet passageways to get there, and yet more so by the bodily exhaustion upon exiting.
So much for eloquence. Pictures, anyone?
The team at the entrance (minus our guide, taking the picture).
A little friend at the entrance. It was later that I was following one of the other team members down a narrow passageway, and noticed that he had a little bat hanging on his back pocket–must have scraped it off of the roof on on of the low spots!
Said narrow passageway. Notice the steam: Those of you that know me know I sweat a lot. Well, in a cave perspiration turns to steam–and you have no idea how many pictures failed to be good because the light flashed off of the cloud of steam I was constantly generating.
And then we got to the big room. It was unbelievable.
One of the things about caving is that you never know where you’re going to find amazing things. We got up into the bit room by a tunnel that came up through the floor, and then I leaned on this wall. It was only later that I saw what I had been leaning on!
This is the same shot–the first is with the flash, and the second is what it looked like with a flashlight.
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A few parting shots.
I would mention, in closing, that some of the pictures that did not turn out were of the 25 -foot underground waterfall that was little short of mind-blowing.
Whoa, lookout–it’s another week coming!
April 23rd, 2007 at 11:56 am
Wow–talk about… claustrophobia… Glad you enjoyed the experience though! It looks like it was a neat break for you!
April 25th, 2007 at 6:28 am
Looks like a lot of fun. I’ve only been to a cave once and that was one of those “safe” tourist caves were there was only one “tight” spot and you never were allowed beyond the roped line.
While I am facinated by caves, my mother is very scared of caves. She told me she started sweating just looking at the pics of Gabe.