We went into Florida Caverns today. The caverns are really neat but the passages are really low in some spots and I almost shit my pants bending over and slithering through some of them. Nevertheless, the cavern is pretty spectacular and the tour takes visitors right up to the stalactites, stalagmites and columns. The tour guide was a nice kid but she pronounces stalactite as “stalagtite,” and said that her mnemonic trick to remember that the deposits are calcite is that calcite rhymes with “cow.” The tour is still fun for all but all the kids touch the deposits despite being told not to touch anything. Shitty parents, I guess.
There was an enormous Barred Owl that we spotted that lives in a Cypress tree in the swamp behind the the spot where we set up the Invader. He makes lots of racket, even before dark and is a truly gorgeous specimen. We have named him Fauntleroy the Assripper.