Indiana Caverns/Corydon Expedition
Corydon, Indiana Friday, August 7, 2015- Indiana Caverns is an amazing place to go. You start by watching a five to ten minute video about how caves in general are created, how the Binkley Cave System was founded, and how Indiana Caverns was ingrained. Before you go on the tour with Andrew, early to late twenties, who had dark hair, very enthusiastic with people, as well as being very polite, and lets kids hold his flashlight in the cave, you get your picture taken. You then start your amazing trek through the cave. You walk thirty minutes in a cave that normally stays around fifty-five degrees Fahrenheit year-round. You see stunning formations like cave bacon (shine a flashlight through the formation and …show more content…
Yummy! Yummy!), stalagmites (ones you might trip over or they might reach the ceiling), stalactites (they might reach the bottom or they hang tight to the ceiling), cave popcorn (has a big blob on top and looks like a popcorn kernel), soda straws (hollow stalactites that hang from the ceiling), columns (we call them a column because we call them a “column”), and more formations throughout the cave. When you go through the walking tour, you also see a bunch of peccary and different animal skulls and bones. You also get to see breakdown, which is a bunch of several huge rocks that have broken down overtime since the Ice Age. On the way to the boat part of the tour, you go down “Thunder Alley” which is cold, and at times very slippery grates that are underneath your feet and when you walk across the grates that are beneath your feet, it sounds like thunder! We then get into the boat. Our boat's name was Clifford because it was a very light boat that as soon as you walked into the boat, it would rock violently until you got going on the expedition. …show more content…
As you start to make the turn back around to the boat dock, there is an alligator that has formed there that starts to stare you down (as it looks like it is going to eat your boat!) as you make the turn. We then stop the boat to do a demonstration called lights out. It is where they turn the lights out in the cave. The fact that they do say is true is that in a cave that is completely dark, forty percent of your vision is reduced. We then watched the lights go out in the cave. One of the kids in the boat with us said,
“Let's do it again!” the boy said, six, dark hair, very happy, with his family coming from Chicago to Georgia, thin boy of small statue, had a scanty southern accent, but not near as pronounced as his parents did. He was ecstatic about being in a cave, so much that he asked Andrew if he could hold the
Corydon, Indiana Friday, August 7, 2015- Indiana Caverns is an amazing place to go. You start by watching a five to ten minute video about how caves in general are created, how the Binkley Cave System was founded, and how Indiana Caverns was ingrained. Before you go on the tour with Andrew, early to late twenties, who had dark hair, very enthusiastic with people, as well as being very polite, and lets kids hold his flashlight in the cave, you get your picture taken. You then start your amazing trek through the cave. You walk thirty minutes in a cave that normally stays around fifty-five degrees Fahrenheit year-round. You see stunning formations like cave bacon (shine a flashlight through the formation and …show more content…
Yummy! Yummy!), stalagmites (ones you might trip over or they might reach the ceiling), stalactites (they might reach the bottom or they hang tight to the ceiling), cave popcorn (has a big blob on top and looks like a popcorn kernel), soda straws (hollow stalactites that hang from the ceiling), columns (we call them a column because we call them a “column”), and more formations throughout the cave. When you go through the walking tour, you also see a bunch of peccary and different animal skulls and bones. You also get to see breakdown, which is a bunch of several huge rocks that have broken down overtime since the Ice Age. On the way to the boat part of the tour, you go down “Thunder Alley” which is cold, and at times very slippery grates that are underneath your feet and when you walk across the grates that are beneath your feet, it sounds like thunder! We then get into the boat. Our boat's name was Clifford because it was a very light boat that as soon as you walked into the boat, it would rock violently until you got going on the expedition. …show more content…
As you start to make the turn back around to the boat dock, there is an alligator that has formed there that starts to stare you down (as it looks like it is going to eat your boat!) as you make the turn. We then stop the boat to do a demonstration called lights out. It is where they turn the lights out in the cave. The fact that they do say is true is that in a cave that is completely dark, forty percent of your vision is reduced. We then watched the lights go out in the cave. One of the kids in the boat with us said,
“Let's do it again!” the boy said, six, dark hair, very happy, with his family coming from Chicago to Georgia, thin boy of small statue, had a scanty southern accent, but not near as pronounced as his parents did. He was ecstatic about being in a cave, so much that he asked Andrew if he could hold the