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The drive to Cave City, Kentucky along the Cumerberland Parkway & I-65.
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The natural entrance to the Frozen Niagra falls tour. Obviously, this sink hole opening is a bit small for entry.
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Luckily, some guy blew a hole in the roof of the cavern in this same sink hole, so in we go.
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Moving into the caverns.
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Fairly open at first, but definately not for Claustrophobic people
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Yes, those are people down there.
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Down...Down... Down. Eventually taking us to level 3 of the caverns, 250 feet below the surface. The lowest level is 5, where the river still is.
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The walls get a bit closer. Natasha, Evelyn, and Joey head on down.
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Yeah, I can't see the bottom either.
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Evelyn walks through one of the old water tunnels.
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The large amphitheater at 250 below the surface, on level 3 of 5 in Mammoth Cave.
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Duck... the ceiling is moving down.
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Feels like Alice in Wonderland...
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Natasha, Evelyn, Joey, Karla, and Adonai all continue towards Frozen Niagra Falls.
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Frozen Niagra...
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Some Stalagmites (ground) and Stalactites (ceiling).
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More Stalagmites & Stalactites.
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Puts this to proportion to Joey.
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A stalactite curtain.
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Another shot of Frozen Niagra...
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Through the tunnel towards the exit...
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The slow process of Stalagmite & Stalactite building.
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Even a Column has formed...
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The home stretch.
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Back to the surface... our Frozen Niagra Tour complete.
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The natural cave entrance..
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Old log pipes for bringing in water.
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An old pit used back in the 1800's.
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Giants Coffin.
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After a rather large entrance, 50 feet across, 15 feet hight, it starts to get small.
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Down further into the cave... towards level 4, the lowest level accesible this time of year.
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Through the caverns...
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They don't call it the bottomless pit for nothing...
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The ceiling is gettin kinda low heading for Fat Man's Misery and Tall Man's Lament.
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Tall Man's Lament
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Fat Man's Misery
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This is sooo much smaller than it looks...
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We had to weave ourselves through what felt like 500 feet of this.
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All the while, the ceiling seems to get lower and lower and lower...
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After a good long hike, we head back out of the natural entrance of the cave. We had decended 310 feet into the Cavern, all the way to level 4.
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