Mammoth Caves, KY
May. 23rd, 2007 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ickaimpWorld's largest interlocking cave system. It's a World Heritage Site, like Nikko.
They have Sightless Fish!!!!! and Shrimp!!! We couldn't see them, cause they're underwater in the low caves.
We took the Historical Tour first, seeing how they pulled calcium nitrate of the caves to make Salt Petre for gunpowder for the war of 1812. (the guide was made a comment about how it wasn't for the gunpowder, they wouldn't have chased the British away and we'd be driving on the wrong side of the road and talking funny. Icka looks down at the Union Jack shirt she's wearing and wonders what's wrong with that.)
It was a nice walk through the caves, although it seems like Allie and I were the only ones who remembered that caves have a mummifying effect and brought water. Then we took a slight break and went and took the 'Frozen Niagara Falls/New Entrance Tour'.
That one is rated very stressful, is over 300 stairs down. I liked that one the best, but we also had a smaller group, so it was better. It also has more interesting formations.
We then headed to Evansville, Indiana to crash at Mati's grandfather's house. I felt bad, he thought there was only going to be two people, instead there were four. We got lost on the way there, which is when three of us got punch drunk silly about itand had just started to find our way back when one one got snippy and angry and threw a hissy fit (grrrr). Turns out that the turn we needed was -before- the town, about the point we almost ran over a deer.
Whoops. ^^;;
They have Sightless Fish!!!!! and Shrimp!!! We couldn't see them, cause they're underwater in the low caves.
We took the Historical Tour first, seeing how they pulled calcium nitrate of the caves to make Salt Petre for gunpowder for the war of 1812. (the guide was made a comment about how it wasn't for the gunpowder, they wouldn't have chased the British away and we'd be driving on the wrong side of the road and talking funny. Icka looks down at the Union Jack shirt she's wearing and wonders what's wrong with that.)
It was a nice walk through the caves, although it seems like Allie and I were the only ones who remembered that caves have a mummifying effect and brought water. Then we took a slight break and went and took the 'Frozen Niagara Falls/New Entrance Tour'.
That one is rated very stressful, is over 300 stairs down. I liked that one the best, but we also had a smaller group, so it was better. It also has more interesting formations.
We then headed to Evansville, Indiana to crash at Mati's grandfather's house. I felt bad, he thought there was only going to be two people, instead there were four. We got lost on the way there, which is when three of us got punch drunk silly about it
Whoops. ^^;;