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Old 10-04-2007, 10:56 PM   #10
ryndove
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Nolan, Tx
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Re: Top picks for cave tours

I have to say that I like Inner Space the best! hehe, I used to be a tour guide there so we got too see stuff that a normal tourist couldnt. But even so there are a lot of very interesting facts about Inner Space. i.e. Inner Space had 144 different types of species found inside of it due to the 3 massive sink holes. The cool thing about that cave was it was 4 miles of cavern and there was a really good chance that there were many many more rooms. There was a room way off he beatin trail that was litterally "jailed" off from outside cavers due to the fact that there were "soda straws" so long that they made soda straw columns and you could see another room beyond them yet you couldnt get to it do to the fragile state of the columns.

There was always an unspoken rivalry between our guides and Natural Bridge guides, after I matured a little bit I decided to take a couple of my friends there and check it out. I have to say that Natural Bridge was awesome and would probably go as far to say that it was more majestic then ours. Inner Space is neat in its own way, exspecially when it comes to the fault line you can see and the drappery column and the flowing stone of time, not to mention the crater of the moon room. But Natural Bridge had its own intersting facts when it came to geological movement and also there cave formations.

I went on a road trip and visited a lot of caves in the hill country area. Natural Bridge was first and fabulous, we also went to Cave Without A Name which is special in its own time limited way. I didnt care for Longhorn Cavern the least bit. And we by-passed Wonder cave because we heard it was a hole in the ground and didnt have formations which is the principal idea of visiting a cavern.

I have also been to Carlsbad which was pretty neat. The tour guides were a little rude but you cant blame them, they work for the public. Anywho a lot of interesting caverns in our great nation. An interesting thought though, a lot of the cavers that worked with me had mentioned a possibility that Carlsbad connected with Mammoth Caverns. So if you think about that, that would be absolutely astonding if you ask me! Anywho, peace be with y'all! Later
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