This morning Bill left early for Bowling Green KY to see the Corvette Museum. I slept in, enjoyed the peace and quiet, and chatted with Mandy. Bill got home about 11:30 after having stopped at WalMart to get some bottled water. We had lunch, and then headed to Mammoth Cave for the 1:30 Onyx Cave tour.
This was a really interesting tour since there were no lights in the cave, just the Coleman lanterns that half of us carried. At the beginning of the tour were some lovely limestone stalactites and stalagmites. Then we went through some dry cave and ended up in an area of wonderful gypsum formations. One area looked like white chicken feathers had been stuck to the ceiling. There were many delicate gypsum formations on the walls and ceilings. My favorite thing we saw was a tiny (only 2” long) pipistrelle bat. He was so cute!! We saw lots of cave crickets which almost look like spiders. I didn’t get any photos because we couldn’t take them on this tour.
After the cave tour, we drove to see Sand Cave entrance where Floyd Collins died in 1925 after being trapped by falling rock. It is a most interesting, but tragic, story. Look at the web site by clicking on Floyd Collins above. We also saw his final grave site in the Mammoth Cave Cemetery.
Tonight we went the half block down the hill to Aunt Bea’s Restaurant. I wasn’t expecting much, and I wasn’t disappointed. But it was food. I added a few more photos to the Mammoth Cave link on the left.
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