Vacation – Caves

Here are some pictures from our vacation last week. I haven’t edited any of them so please excuse things like red eye or the tops of peoples heads being in the way. I was a bit rushed in taking the pictures because there was always someone behind you, so these are not the best pictures I’ve taken but I had tons of fun and I wanted to share the experience with everyone.

This picture is outside of Moaning Cavern in Calaveras County. It was tons of fun. It was such an experience to actually be in the Earth.

I will post the website at the bottom of this post just in case anyone is interested in visiting the caves.

Outside of the caves waiting for the walking tour to start, while eating oreo’s

Moaning Cavern

This is the huge sprial staircase that we had to walk down to get to the bottom landing of the cave. It wasnt really the bottom but it is where the walking tour stopped...and then we had to walk back up. I thought this picture was funny because the people looked trapped in a cage.

About to descend the spriral stair case of doom

rock formation things

The Boys of the bunch (please excuse the red eye)

This was taken going down the stairs . How creepy does that look? Please excuse the head at the bottom.

This formation is 2 stories tall! How crazy is that?

Just to give you an idea of how big the staircase is, plus we also had to walk up wooden stairs that were hundreds of years old. What a comforting though right? It was a lot of fun though. My legs felt like jelly afterwards though. Partly from walking so many steps and partly from fear. I wasn't afraid of going down the steps and I'm not really afraid of heights but everytime I took a step I could feel by legs and entire lower body shaking.

Website for the caves

 http://www.caverntours.com/

~ by Tori on July 25, 2008.