Post by Tony Anders on Sept 17, 2007 19:27:35 GMT -5
Today my brother, David and I decided to take a drive into Pulaski County, Kentucky looking for the location of the www.caves.org/preserves/wells/wells.html preservation. After driving around for about 4 hours, not lost mind you , just bewildered a few times, we came out from the Daniel Boone National Forest and was fixing to make our drive back home. Maybe a little disappointed that we didn't find a cave to explore, we stopped and asked a man riding a horse if he knew of the cave in question.
He gave us some directions so we again took a side road looking all around the area. Still no luck. We decided this time since it was getting time for me to head up and pick up my two boys from school, that would go home and come back over another day.
Just as we pulled out on the road and began to creek back towards the house, still looking to the road side, I heard my brother say something to the affect of 'uh oh as he began to speed up to keep from getting rear-ended by an unsuspecting traveler. Pulling on over off the road we decided to take one little drive up a little hill just to see if there might be an old house that was supposed to belong to the man the cave was named after.
As we drove for a few seconds, I looked out the drivers window from the passenger seat and hollered at David to look down there. What I could see from my seated position appeared to be a depression with some rock outcroppings. My brother stopped the truck and backed back down to a parking area. Jumping out and trotting up the hill to see the the big yellow 'NO TRESPASSING SIGN' posted on the wall above the hole to the black abyss.
Sure enough we had found the cave in question, looking at our watches we decided to take a small look inside. The farther we went the more there was to see. Talking about giving a kid a lick on a sucker and taking the sucker away. This cave is said to have over 11 miles of mapped passages now, and I believe the cave has not completely been explored.
I can safely say there will be a trip soon back to that cave entrance to cave and cave some more. Maybe we will be lucky and run into more of our caving friends and make it 'cavetacular' time.
He gave us some directions so we again took a side road looking all around the area. Still no luck. We decided this time since it was getting time for me to head up and pick up my two boys from school, that would go home and come back over another day.
Just as we pulled out on the road and began to creek back towards the house, still looking to the road side, I heard my brother say something to the affect of 'uh oh as he began to speed up to keep from getting rear-ended by an unsuspecting traveler. Pulling on over off the road we decided to take one little drive up a little hill just to see if there might be an old house that was supposed to belong to the man the cave was named after.
As we drove for a few seconds, I looked out the drivers window from the passenger seat and hollered at David to look down there. What I could see from my seated position appeared to be a depression with some rock outcroppings. My brother stopped the truck and backed back down to a parking area. Jumping out and trotting up the hill to see the the big yellow 'NO TRESPASSING SIGN' posted on the wall above the hole to the black abyss.
Sure enough we had found the cave in question, looking at our watches we decided to take a small look inside. The farther we went the more there was to see. Talking about giving a kid a lick on a sucker and taking the sucker away. This cave is said to have over 11 miles of mapped passages now, and I believe the cave has not completely been explored.
I can safely say there will be a trip soon back to that cave entrance to cave and cave some more. Maybe we will be lucky and run into more of our caving friends and make it 'cavetacular' time.
