When my best friend, Darren, decided to take me and several of our friends on a wild tour for my bachelor party, I thought that he was crazy. But we had the best time! It truly was a once-in-a-lifetime experience as our guide let us explore hidden domes and muddy crawlways. It was fantastic!
--Justin
When my two sons talked my wife and I into taking a Spelunker Tour on our vacation, I was a little worried about what we might encounter, but our guide, Curtis, did a great job of letting the boys explore as much as they wanted while making sure my wife and I didn't have to exert ourselves too much. I never thought that I could get so dirty, wet, and muddy and have so much fun! What a rush!
--The Boyd Family from Texas
My boyfriend and I are avid cavers, and we were delighted to discover that your cavern offers the wild tours. Your spelunker tour let us experience the complete underground Ozarks--bats, salamanders, cave bacon, crystalline rimstone dams, and entire rooms of columns.
--Karen from Kansas City | |
More Spelunker Tour Photos
In September of 2005, the staff of the cavern explored the furthest reaches of the known cavern. After several hours of crawling through water-filled passages and walking through towering rooms miles back in the cavern, they stopped at a small opening where they felt a strong breeze and saw hundreds of bats disappearing into the darkness above. There is much more to explore!
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From L to R: Adam (a guide at the cavern), Aaron, his son, Vicki, his wife, Curtis (another guide), Vicki, Dennis's wife, and Summer, Curtis's daughter. We are in a fairly large room about a mile and a half deep in the cavern. Notice the large stalagmites we are posing beside. |
Here is a photo of a cave formation called bacon. The layers are very thin and are colored in strips, just the way that real bacon has striations of meat and fat. This formation was so thin that we could shine our headlamps through it. |
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Here's Dennis in the most decorated room in the cavern. It is also at the very back of the cave. To the right, several yards back, there is a small crack that is too small to crawl through, but we've seen hundreds of bats fly through it and then fly up out of sight. |
Here Curtis is at the furthest point we have explored in the cavern. He is at the bottom of a thirty-five foot high dome. There are so many formations coming down the walls of the dome that he had to slide under the flowstone you see over his legs to get in. |
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This is part of what Curtis could see as he looked up the dome. | | |
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