Mammoth Cave

 We decided to embark on a trip into the depths of Mammoth Cave. Mammoth Cave is located in the Margret River and is said to be one of the most beautiful caves in the area. 

Paying the fee at the entrance building and having the headphones and recorder explained to use we set off into a world unknown. 

Before we'd even made it passed what's considered the start we were already snapping photos of the rocks around us. Passing through the entrance with the recorder's voice in our ears and our cameras in our hands we gazed at the world around us. 

It was a beautifully big cave with stalactites and stalagmites everywhere you looked. Reading the number on the stand we pressed in the numbers into our recorder and listened as the voice explain how the cave had come about... I think. As a person who struggles to remembers things from a read aloud I can tell you that I don't remember what they talked about, add to the fact that I was so distracted with everything around me I didn't stand a chance.

Walking along the platform and up some stairs the view just got even better. We could look down and take in the whole area in which we'd just been. Further along the path was even more impressive looking with it's stalactites and stalagmites. Now you might be wondering, which one is the stalagmite and which one is the stalactite again? Well I'm here to tell you that there was one thing I half remember from the recordings. A stalagmite is the one that might reach the celling and a stalactite... Well I told you that I could only half remember it.

Walking slowly along the platform and shooting a hundred photos a minute I was worried that my phone battery would run out as it was already low when we'd started but I didn't worry too much as I knew I could just use one of Kookaburra's three cameras! That she'd brought, not being able to decided which one she'd actually use.

There came a fork in the path and I had to look further down the stairs to the left to see that there was a stand which had skipped a number, so I logically concluded that to the right must have the missing number. 

Turning right I went up some stairs and found the missing number. Now here's where I remember more. The voice said that to my left you can see a rock that looks like a crocodile's head and to the right is an upside down ice cream cone and behind me is an elephants trunk. 

I spotted the crocodile's head easily and thought, it was actually pretty accurate, the ice cream cone was a bit of a stretch but still looked like one, I was very confused with the elephant's trunk however. I think it must have been how they worded it because Kookaburra couldn't see it either, it was only as we were coming back from the other direction did I spot it behind where we'd been standing.

Going down the stairs I'd seen before, we came to a low lying roof where we had to duck our heads for a few meters, when we came out the other side it was vastly different to what we had previously seen. 

It's what I imagine in books when they say dark and danky. We could see the sun light coming in around a left hand corner but before that was a long tunnel with dirt instead of the stalagmites we'd been seeing. Moving more quickly through here but no less fascinated with the underground world we turned the corner and found the exit out, where the cave had, had a collapse and there was now an exit into the outside world. 

Unfortunately with the outside world came stairs and lots of them, slowly making our way up them with frequent stops to admire the view of the cave entrance below, we made our way to the top, where we returned to the entrance building via a walking trail.

I've come to find out while travelling that I really like caves.