~~~ The Caves ~~~

We love spelunking down onto caves but we only do the guided tours... Nothing ever on our own. We have visited many caves across the USA and even though we had been to these before we wanted to take Alyssah down into them. We went over very early hoping to get into the first tour of the day.... but it was totally booked so we ended up on the 9:30 tour which was very lucky for us... We had the best guide whose name was Bill... He was a little older then most of the guides but he had a great deal of knowledge about caves. There were a few steep stairs to go down and some areas as low as 4 feet high and 2 feet wide to waddle through but everyone in our group made it... Our guide was 70 and there was a charming couple there that were in their 80s... we also managed to have one very loud toddler around 3... we stayed away from him needless to say... I am posting some pictures of the caverns and hope that you enjoy looking at them...
To see any of them larger just double click on the picture...

Thanks for coming by and I hope you enjoyed all the pictures of the caverns...

Until Later

~~~Here we are at Florida Caverns~~~

We arrived safely at the Florida Caverns in Marianna, Florida and set up Tassie in her little nook in the woods... They have sites that are big enough for big rigs, 50AMP and water but no sewer. There are a lot of trees and TV, phone and Internet are hard to get if not impossible. But going to the caves are well worth the inconvenience. We'll be here for 3 nights and plan to go into the caves one day and ride around town to see some of the historic homes the next day... and of course make our weekly visit to Wal-Mart to load up on groceries and necessities...

Entrance to park and Miss Tassie all set up in her little site

Poppy & Alyssah taking the garbage to the dump and

a little friend we saw in the swamps

Here are a couple of pictures of Florida swamps

We are going for a hike down the dirt path to the old swimming hole

Alyssah & Memaw on the boardwalk to the swimming hole & at last the swimming hole. What a beautiful shade of blue it is...

A spring fed swimming hole that stays at 72' all year

Look at this cute little turtle... no bigger then 2" in diameter

& one of my little feathered friends

Tomorrow we are going down into the caves...

It will be a fun adventure for our Miss Little Sunshine...

Until Later