Caves

Caves are sooo cool. We went to the Sea Lion Caves in Florence, OR on May 22nd. It's one of the largest sea caves in the world. The Sea Lions don't spend much time in the caves during the summer. They have a webcam on their site, so you can watch the sea lions. It was pretty cool, but smelled like an animal pen. Despite the foul odor, it was still worth seeing.

I remember visiting the Wind Caves in South Dakota. It is one of the largest caves in the world, and they believe that they haven't even discovered all the tunnels.

We will be visiting Timpanogos Cave this month. I haven't been since I was a child, but I want to take my son to it.

After my mission I went with a bunch of my friends to the Nutty Putty Caves on the other side of Utah lake. The entrance to the cave is a hole in the ground. I crawled through a narrow passage (actually called the birth canal), and then took a direct left into another hole. I got stuck in a fetal position. It was one of the scariest experiences of my life. I thought I would be stuck there forever. The caves are now closed because too many people get stuck there and have to be rescued. I was one of the lucky ones. I was only stuck for a few minutes.

One of the coolest caves I have ever been in, was actually a salt mine. It was a salt mine near Salzburg, Austria (where part of "Sound of Music" was filmed) You dress up as a miner and take a train ride through the tunnels, slide down a huge slide, and row across an underground lake.