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| Spar in Norman Cave, past the water passage | More Spar | More Spar | More Spar | White ribbons covered a section of wall, about my height |
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| Same ribbons backlit by Corey | The Great White Way.... we're pretty sure | More | More | More |
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| More | One of the many pools in Norman | Same pool, different light | Waiting for Corey to find Windy Mouth | No luck, but the bugs were all nice |
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| We were given directions to some other cave, though the person who provided them didn't know what it was called... no luck for hours, but Corey did find this... we've dubbed it Lost Shoe Dig | View in the Crowder's Cave area | It rained, so we went back to Lewisburg to "camp" for the night, instead of doing Crowder's once we found it... ahhh Walmart | Salamander near the bottom of the sink at Crowder's Cave | The entrance with a touch of morning fog |
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| Looking back | Same spot | Climbing high in the back of Crowder's, you can look back and see a huge flowstone formation ... unfortunately there's no way to get close enough for perspective | Rimstone in the other half of Crowder's (the sink is a collapse in the middle of the original cave, it seems) | Entrance light |
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| Signatures on some of the formations (on most of them, really) | The sink to enter Crowder's... first down a hill, then down a ladder, then another hill, all along a cliff edge. I'm on the ladder | Corey's not satisfied... it's time to find another cave, but no luck this time | Buckeye Creek Cave - unfortunately I left my camera in the car, but we had a good time and went back to the second sump. Afterwards we stopped by the house across the street to chat and meet the deer. | |
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| And the parrots... | Then continued on our way to Borehole, where we explored several passages. We took a little rest break at one of the many pools in the righthand passage. | Another passage had crystals spouting out of the fill dirt/stones. We think it's gypsum but it sure came in varied colors | More crystals | |
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| Gypsum crust on the walls | More of the same | The largest set of gypsum we found... about a foot long total in this shot. | Borehole really blew the air when we opened up the culvert... note the survey tape on the tree | Corey headed out and blocking the air flow |