ryndove

That is truly tragic! I was fortunate enough to visit the Sonora Caverns over the summer last year and was able to see that butterfly before it was vandalized! As tragic as it was I hope that this will open the eyes of the staff at Sonora Caverns. When I went there I went with my wife and mother-in-law and we got left behind on more than one occasion. I was a tour guide at Inner Space Caverns for 2 years so I know all about keeping up with the group. The simple fact was, was that Sonora Caverns is such a majestic cavern that we couldnt walk and look around at the same time. We had to stop every so often and look around. Unfortunantly thats not what our tour guide thought. His priorities were to get out of the cavern as fast as he could. I really was disgusted with the staff at that cavern compared to the cave that I worked at. I know that sounds biast, but we made sure everybody was together due to the fact that we shut the lights off behind us and also that there is so much interesting facts about a cavern that you want everybody to know what you are talking about. Unfortuantly we had our own vandalism at Inner Space as well. We had a Columbian Mammoth tusk that was distroyed with a hammer right before I started working there. Sadly enough it used to be apart of the tour right after "the wall" and now its nothing. I just hope that Sonora can learn from this as we did after the mammoth incident!