Friday, November 26, 2004

Blackwater Rafting

Krisanne and I drove up to Charleston to try out blackwater rafting. This is basically tubing in a cave.

Brave cave explorers


Most of the tour was walking around inside the cave. Unlike the Haggas Honking Holes tour I did, this trip wasn't as active - no abseiling (rappeling), not as much climbing and squeezing through narrow spots. There was definitely a lot less crawling on hands and knees through water! However, there were more cave formations to see, and far more glow worms to see.

Looking through stalactites


When we reached the blackwater rafting entry point, we linked our inner tubes together, and the floated backwards for about 400 meters. All the while, hundreds and hundreds of glow worms passed above us, which looked like stars on the night sky. We exited the cave, and then tubed for about half a kilometer to the river exit spot.

Blackwater Rafting

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