Spelunking is more fun than skydiving and bungee jumping! It also felt like one of the most dangerous things I've ever done. It's definitely an extreme sport (apparently, the qualification for extreme sport is a sport in which a mistake can be fatal... I'd always thought soccer is sort of extreme (and dangerous)... but by this definition, soccer is not an extreme sport).
The caves we went into weren't very large (136m long and 30m deep, and 40m long and 15m deep)... but it felt as if there were plenty of opportunities to get lost or stuck or somehow trapped inside forever. At one point, we crawled into a small cavern in which there was only sufficient room to remain prone... there was a colony of spiders on the ceiling... and water dripped from many broken stalactites. We hung out there for quite a while... turned off our headlamps and were in total darkness... and silence. It seemed the perfect place for rest... or death.
We'll probably go back soon and do a guided tour of a bigger cave... 384m long and 68m deep. I should have been a geologist.
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Wow D, very creepy.
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I sounds like an interesting activity, but I would never be able to do it.
Paula
Apparently it wasn't creepy until I screamed. Last night as we sat in total darkness in one of the largest chambers in the cave... I said "Hmm... I wonder what it would be like to scream in here?"... and he said "Why don't you try it?"... so I screamed... "Wow... that was pretty cool, eh?"... "That's creepy!"... "Want me to do it again?"... "NO!"... "Seriously?"... "Yeah, seriously. That's creepy."
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