{"id":2941,"date":"2013-06-02T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/2013\/06\/02\/into-the-underworld"},"modified":"2021-09-12T05:31:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T12:31:06","slug":"into-the-underworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=2941","title":{"rendered":"into the Underworld"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the 1960’s, a Texas farmer found a massive sinkhole on his property. He called the authorities, who in turned had a couple local scientists come out to explore. Drilling a hole down into the earth led to the eventual discovery of Natural Bridge Caverns<\/a>, outside of San Antonio, Texas.\n

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I ventured onto both the Discovery & the Hidden Passages tours. Both go down nine stories into our underworld. With all of the recent rains, it was a symphony of nature’s music as water droplets fell from the otherworldly stalactites, the water pooling and rushing at our feet down into Hades depths.<\/p>\n

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There are only two places in the entire world where humans can experience total darkness : the bottom of the ocean and immersed one hundred and eighty feet down inside a cave. I experience the latter, and with eyesight temporarily removed my other senses are heightened, akin to a bat and the other creatures that have found a way to survive in this existence.<\/p>\n

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The tangled and twisted formations play with your mind, bending reality into science fiction. Objects become more than just sediment building over a millennia. A living force grows before you.<\/p>\n

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I trip through the light fantastic as one’s imagination creates in the Underworld of the caverns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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