Another 3 day weekend allowed for another camping adventure!
A group of us car-a-vanned over to the next prefecture for a camping and caving adventure.
Our group of 7 left Saturday morning for Fukushima. The drive took longer than expected and between taking a long lunch and finding a campsite, we were not able to go to the caves on Saturday. We set up camp and made pumpkin curry (in a pumpkin) on the fire and s'mores...delicious!
On Sunday we awoke ready to start out caving adventure! We headed to the first cave. The first cave we went to was call Abukuma-do. This was the "pretty" cave. The path was easy and there were signs (with some English!) explaining the types of formations. It was well lite and FULL of people! The formations were about 80 million years old and were BEAUTIFUL! But see for yourself....
The group shot before entering the cave...
Some different formations...
This picture grosses me out a little...it looks so slimy!
Rick walking along the path...
The girls...
There was an underground water system...
and more formations...
climbing the stairs...(even we, of normal height and weight, had trouble fitting through here...)
The whole group inside the cave!
curtains, soda straws and box formations...see mom, I learned something on my vacation!
I just really like this one because it is a whole wall of similar formations...
I am pretty sure this one is called "something mushroom"...don't know how it go it's name...it looks NOTHING like a mushroom!
After we enjoyed the beautiful formations in Abukuma-do (and learned) we headed just a few kilometers down the road to Irimizu-do. This cave had 3 different courses-A, B, and C. A course was only about 150 m and was very easy. (trust me-women were walking it in heels!). B course was more difficult and was 450m further into the cave. For B course, you had to carry your own light (as most of it was not lite) and be ready to crawl through tight spaces while mid-calf deep in FREEZING water. We were ready!
The course was a blast. The water was cold but after a short time, all of our feet were numb so it didn't matter! (we just ignored that little voice screaming about how much trouble we would be in if anything happened while in there!) We squated, jumped and climbed over rocks to view many more beautiful formations! We could not take a camera in since we knew we would get soaked so we only have a picture of the after...(note that none of us are dry from waist down and our tops or sufficiently soaked threw!)
A group of us car-a-vanned over to the next prefecture for a camping and caving adventure.
Our group of 7 left Saturday morning for Fukushima. The drive took longer than expected and between taking a long lunch and finding a campsite, we were not able to go to the caves on Saturday. We set up camp and made pumpkin curry (in a pumpkin) on the fire and s'mores...delicious!
On Sunday we awoke ready to start out caving adventure! We headed to the first cave. The first cave we went to was call Abukuma-do. This was the "pretty" cave. The path was easy and there were signs (with some English!) explaining the types of formations. It was well lite and FULL of people! The formations were about 80 million years old and were BEAUTIFUL! But see for yourself....
The group shot before entering the cave...
Some different formations...
This picture grosses me out a little...it looks so slimy!
Rick walking along the path...
The girls...
There was an underground water system...
and more formations...
climbing the stairs...(even we, of normal height and weight, had trouble fitting through here...)
The whole group inside the cave!
curtains, soda straws and box formations...see mom, I learned something on my vacation!
I just really like this one because it is a whole wall of similar formations...
I am pretty sure this one is called "something mushroom"...don't know how it go it's name...it looks NOTHING like a mushroom!
After we enjoyed the beautiful formations in Abukuma-do (and learned) we headed just a few kilometers down the road to Irimizu-do. This cave had 3 different courses-A, B, and C. A course was only about 150 m and was very easy. (trust me-women were walking it in heels!). B course was more difficult and was 450m further into the cave. For B course, you had to carry your own light (as most of it was not lite) and be ready to crawl through tight spaces while mid-calf deep in FREEZING water. We were ready!
The course was a blast. The water was cold but after a short time, all of our feet were numb so it didn't matter! (we just ignored that little voice screaming about how much trouble we would be in if anything happened while in there!) We squated, jumped and climbed over rocks to view many more beautiful formations! We could not take a camera in since we knew we would get soaked so we only have a picture of the after...(note that none of us are dry from waist down and our tops or sufficiently soaked threw!)
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