Saturday, October 23, 2010

Jewel Cave

We went to this amazing cave in South Dakota. It's called Jewel Cave. I believe they said it is one of the largest caves in the world, and they are still finding new parts of it all the time. There is several differant tour of the cave. We went on the five mile tour. It was amazing but also terrifying. I do not liketight spaces and the idea of being 500 ft. under ground was rather nerve racking for me. I am also afraid of heights and so there were times where we were on a bridge over a black hole and I'm not kidding. Amber would not have made it through. She would have had a heart attack. For those of you that have been to the Oregon Caves this was is alot differant because, it's underground (you take an elevator and have to go through special doors because of pressure), and it's a dry cave. Some parts of it have limestone like the picture below but most of it is very dry. I only took a few pictures. I as to focused on walking across black holes.


This very last picture doesn't do it's justice. I highly recommend that you google jewel cave and it's bacon strip. You can kind of tell from the picture but as you walk past this spot. There is a piece of limestone that looks like a oversized piece of bacon. The strips on it look like bacon, it has the ripple of bacon. It looks like bacon, it's very cool.

I am glad to say I survived and didn't fall into any black holes and once I was out it was a very nice experience. Now some of the other tours take you through to this spot that the space is so small that only certain people can get into this amazing room. I think by there measurment I would barely fit at the time we were there. Now, I probably wouldn't fit because I haven't been working out lately. I don't want to go there anyway.

1 comment:

AMY AND MIKEY said...

Elise! OFcourse we are NOT mad at you!!!! We were grateful for everything you did! Thankyou! We know you can only do so much and the rest is up to them, plus it's so hard to get a teaching job right now in general. My sister is actually engaged! She lives in California in Redlands. We just found out about teh engagement this week so I have no idea about the details yet.