Wednesday, June 9, 2010

To the swamp and back: Mammoth Caves and Ticks

During our only full day in Kentucky...














... we dodged a dinousar...













... and went to Mammoth Caves National Park...

















... and took the Historic cave tour...














... in which we learned about how slaves turned bat poop into gunpowder, sort of ...














...and rich people paid lots of money to deface the inside of the cave ...














...and the generously proportioned people were challenged.


















We learned that a cavern and a cave are the same thing...


















...and got to take the same exact picture everyone takes upon leaving the historic entrance, though I had an actual camera and not an iphone.














We went back for the dogs and then spend the afternoon hiking some of the surface trails....














... and saw where a river enters the caves...














... and passed by the entrance to a smaller cave...














... but didn't go in.

Over the course of the hike, the dogs became infested with ticks.















... and no, that that one ...















... but these. Dozens of them. 















We spent hours removing them....














... before retiring to the campground for a nice quiet evening.

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