As summer draws to a close, we wanted to get out and have some fun!
S and J and friend B packed up the car with PB&J sannies, carrots and celery and lots of water and sunscreen, and our headlamps of course, and we headed out to Warsaw Caves, a conservation area with unique rock formations perfect for spelunking.
It was interesting and unexpectedly informative, and here's what I think happened: 12,000 years ago the Indian River, for some reason, was really big and flowed through here at such a fantastic rate of speed that it cleaned all the soil away and left a ravine full of huge limestone chunks and underground caverns that form an amazing series of caves, some of them connected to each other. The river flows underground in some places and it's eerie to
hike along, listening to the rushing water coming from under your feet. A few of the caves have ice in them year round. You can feel the cool air drifting up around your ankles as you try to decide how best to descend. There was a beach and a dog-unfriendly picnic area but the sun hid behind some clouds and a cool breeze convinced us to hike rather than swim. Along the hike we saw kettles of varying sizes, smooth round holes or pits in the rock made from swirling pebbles during glacial retraction. Neat! And we're not supposed to learn anything until school starts ...
Beautiful scenery! The only downfall: dirty kids.
Dirty kids but great big smiles! What can be better than that on a late summers day. Looks so very interesting. Hope Bop and I can join you on a late adventure there.
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