caving
okok.. time to go back in time. let's rewind to wed, 1st September. I went caving! we went to this place called tytoona. it was amazing and an experience never to forget.
just before that, shawna and I were walking around downtown, shopping for penn state shirts for saturday's game and we got kinda lost. or rather i got us lost cuz i was convinced that left was the right way to go. i guess next time, right is always right. anyways. she told me they were going caving that evening and i was like why never ask me?! and she said she sent me the email which i didn't receive of course. so in less than 30mins, we rushed back so that i could change and grab some stuff and headed off to the meeting point.
on the drive there which took about 30mins plus, i found out that we were going to get all dirty and wet. and i was like -_-" didn't bring an extra change of clothes. dot dot dot. but anyways. there's no stopping me to getting into some adventure. hehe. once we got there, we grabbed ourselves some helmets and we were all ready to go!
as we stepped into the cave, geez it was cold. and dark. but it got "better"...soon enough we found ourselves trudging in water knee deep and bent over so that we would not hit the "ceiling" and just making noises to see if there was an echo. we walked till the end of the cave that wasn't really the end, just that you'd need to scuba dive 20/30 feet down to continue exploring. at this end, we did wad i call the silent black out. we switched off our headlights and just kept really silent. it was so dark that you couldn't see your hand even if you put it right in front of your face. it made me feel like i was all alone in that place, hearing only the sound of moving water and nothing else. it was like escapism from reality only that there was a certain strange beauty to that silence and darkness that i cannot explain in words.
after a few minutes, we switched our lights back on and explored the cave. we found crayfish in the water, frogs and also salamanders. i was so fascinated by the life we found in the cave. i held them in my hands and made some special memories in this big black cave. hahas. i also saw something that caught my attention. it was this flower like thing, we i assume is some type of fungus or parasite cuz it was growing on this black dead log. it was white, and skinny and about the length of my finger. it had the stalk of a beansprout and petals at the end. a very pretty sight.
after exploring we went to another part of the cave where it was so tight that we had to get on our bellies and crawl through the tunnel. and at the end of the tunnel there was a tiny space for like 3 ppl to stand up, all squished up, facing each other and wishing to get out as soon as possible. hahas. the ground was rocky and i got some cuts. but ohman. wad an experience. just outside this tunnel, all around was just clay. and we started making clay man. or started making balls of clay and threw at each other. it was great fun. there was a slopish part too, where we all took turns to slide down the natural clay slide. hahas. so fun!
all in all, though the cave was a lil chilly, and the water was freezing cold and we got all clayish and dirty. it's something i would not mind doing again! hope there are more to come =))
just before that, shawna and I were walking around downtown, shopping for penn state shirts for saturday's game and we got kinda lost. or rather i got us lost cuz i was convinced that left was the right way to go. i guess next time, right is always right. anyways. she told me they were going caving that evening and i was like why never ask me?! and she said she sent me the email which i didn't receive of course. so in less than 30mins, we rushed back so that i could change and grab some stuff and headed off to the meeting point.
on the drive there which took about 30mins plus, i found out that we were going to get all dirty and wet. and i was like -_-" didn't bring an extra change of clothes. dot dot dot. but anyways. there's no stopping me to getting into some adventure. hehe. once we got there, we grabbed ourselves some helmets and we were all ready to go!
as we stepped into the cave, geez it was cold. and dark. but it got "better"...soon enough we found ourselves trudging in water knee deep and bent over so that we would not hit the "ceiling" and just making noises to see if there was an echo. we walked till the end of the cave that wasn't really the end, just that you'd need to scuba dive 20/30 feet down to continue exploring. at this end, we did wad i call the silent black out. we switched off our headlights and just kept really silent. it was so dark that you couldn't see your hand even if you put it right in front of your face. it made me feel like i was all alone in that place, hearing only the sound of moving water and nothing else. it was like escapism from reality only that there was a certain strange beauty to that silence and darkness that i cannot explain in words.
after a few minutes, we switched our lights back on and explored the cave. we found crayfish in the water, frogs and also salamanders. i was so fascinated by the life we found in the cave. i held them in my hands and made some special memories in this big black cave. hahas. i also saw something that caught my attention. it was this flower like thing, we i assume is some type of fungus or parasite cuz it was growing on this black dead log. it was white, and skinny and about the length of my finger. it had the stalk of a beansprout and petals at the end. a very pretty sight.
after exploring we went to another part of the cave where it was so tight that we had to get on our bellies and crawl through the tunnel. and at the end of the tunnel there was a tiny space for like 3 ppl to stand up, all squished up, facing each other and wishing to get out as soon as possible. hahas. the ground was rocky and i got some cuts. but ohman. wad an experience. just outside this tunnel, all around was just clay. and we started making clay man. or started making balls of clay and threw at each other. it was great fun. there was a slopish part too, where we all took turns to slide down the natural clay slide. hahas. so fun!
all in all, though the cave was a lil chilly, and the water was freezing cold and we got all clayish and dirty. it's something i would not mind doing again! hope there are more to come =))
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