Doing the Belly Crawl

We went caving today! It was so much fun. I have been through caves before, but mostly just the kind of caving trips where you walk, upright, most of the way. On this trip, you did not really have many upright moments! It started out with us dropping down into a manmade entrance. Other than crawling for a very long way in a very little opening, that is the only way in to this part of the cave, and yet we still did not completely miss the crawling part. In one of the pictures you can see the place where we crawled down. Oh, and there was a ladder for this part.....we did not drop in with ropes or anything. At the bottom of this was a small...very small room where we gathered until we were all down there and then the crawling began. Just a note........this was the last opportunity for us to take pictures because during our first crawl we were pretty much flat out in water, doing the belly crawl, and Mike did not realize that the zip lock bag was not zip locked closed! So, the camera took a mud bath.......but, the memory card survived....thus the pictures. Ok...My blogging thing is not letting me put "returns" in here to make paragraphs, so this will be one huge paragraph. Once we were down in that little room we had to crawl through a very tight passage way...I have no idea how long it was but it was small enough that part of it was a belly crawl and there was a stream of water through it, so we got wet and muddy right off the bat.......it was great. Once we were down in the cave further the trip was more walking and crawling but not scooting. We saw some awesome underground sights, a few critters, and at one point just sat down and turned out all of the lights and enjoyed conversation in absolute darkness. It was great. Well...that is about it. I do plan on doing that again...hopefully soon. I really really enjoyed it. I wish we would have gotten some pictures of ourselves once we emerged from the underground....we were covered in mud and soak and wet, and of course, that is just totally fun............