Here's a picture of the the outside, or top, of the caverns. It's how they picked the name - this little 'bridge' is actually the old ceiling of the caverns - the rest collapsed when the water table dropped and the pressure was higher outside the caverns than the inside. This 'bridge' was the only part of the ceiling that didn't collapse, so they named it Natural Bridge Caverns.
Our tour guide was fantastic and I learned a lot down inside the caverns - it was sooo cool! All I kept thinking was that I felt like I was in the movie Goonies because we were down about 200 feet below the ground and the 'ceilings' down in the caverns were soooo high and it was all natural cave formations - I expected to see One-Eyed Willie in a big ship, with LOTS of gold coins!! I love that movie!The only bad things about the tour were that it was 99% humidity (I'm not exaggerating, that's the number that they told us - it's like that year-round. DISGUSTING!!) and the fact that there were three 2-year-olds that screamed the whole time. ANNOYING. When the tour guide finally asked one of the Moms if she wanted to go back out of the caverns because her child was obviously NOT happy.....this Mom had the audacity to just say, "Oh, she's OK. She just wants her pacifier and we're not giving it to her because we're trying to ween her off of it" (then giggles like it's cute or something). ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? You took a small child (who won't understand or remember this tour) down into an echoing cavern for almost 2 hours and expect us to be OK with that child screaming because you feel like weening her off the pacifier today??? UGH.
Anyway, I'm glad I went on the tour and there were some amazing views down there!
Here are my pics: (and they don't do it justice)
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Stalactites and stalagmites...cool!
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