While in the Black Hills of South Dakota, we visited Jewel Cave. There's something so dramatic about touring a cave. After taking an elevator the equivalent of 23 stories straight down into the earth, we emerged into a different world. We went from a temperature of about 85 degrees to a steady 49 - did you know that all caves are the temperature average of the surface?
At one point, the ranger turned off all the lights so that we could experience total darkness - which was wild until I accidentally blew it by accidentally taking my camera off sleep mode. Even though my kids weren't standing next to me and there were 31 people on the tour, Henry immediately called out "Mom!"
It was difficult to get photos but here are our best attempts....
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| Taking a quick break - there were over 700 stairs that we climbed. |
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| One of the walls of the cave. |
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| Beautiful crystals on most of the cave walls and ceiling - gorgeous but worth almost nothing. |
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| Jessica looks cute but you can't see the amazing wall behind her. |
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| I saw spots for a couple minutes after this photo as my eyes readjusted |
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| This caves version of stalactites |
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| This is called cave bacon -the whole piece was about 20 feet long. |
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