Well, we woke this morning to a cool 42 degrees and overcast skies. Haven’t run into too much sun in this part of Florida. The residents here tell us that the temp has been running below normal.
We were a little skeptical about how good the caves could be because we have been to some of the best caves in the country. However, we were pleasantly surprised. We had a great tour guide and learned some new cave facts. Like, the internal temp of the cave is always the average temp of the area. This cave’s average temp runs between 62-65 degrees year round. It was cold outside but felt very humid and warm inside. Other caves we have toured had an average temp of 52 or 42 degrees.
Embedded in the cave walls were seashells and even some petrified sharks teeth. Where the cave is located was once covered by 300 ft of warm sea water.
The cave had the typical structures including some new findings. Usually, there are soda straw formations throughout the cave but in this cave there were spiral soda straw formations caused by the swirling wind in the cave directing the drops of mineral deposits into a spiral formation. Different and very pretty.
LINK TO FLORIDA CAVERNS SP FL
http://www.floridastateparks.org/floridacaverns/
JEWELS MORNING WALK ON
THE SINK HOLE TRAIL
It never did warm up – in fact- it felt very raw and cold but that didn’t stop us from taking a one hour hike down the sink hole trail. It’s amazing how many sink holes are in this area alone. After touring the cave and viewing the many sink holes we are once again reminded that the ground beneath us is really riddled with caverns and caves – not the Terra-Firma one would think. So I guess that means we’re all subject to the possibility of a sinking experience.
CAVERN TOUR
WEIRD TREE PHOTO
Tomorrow we will head out to Torreya State Park and new adventures. The sun is suppose to shine tomorrow – we’ll see.
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