After spending a day wandered around the beautiful Riverwalk of San Antonio, the next day, we got a chance to once again experience a ‘natural workout’. We roamed into the darkness of Natural Bridge Caverns—the largest cavern in Texas—ten miles from downtown San Antonio. Obviously, this was my husband’s idea. (I would have preferred the Sea World instead.)
Even thought I don’t have the slightest interest in geology (a fair amount interest in archaeology, though), this trip was a blast! We had fun. There are three choices of tour. We went for just two of them because the other one is Adventure Tour which involves—in my understanding—no artificial lightings, no handrails, helmet with light, crawling, hiking, and rope. It would be totally cool for another day, but not that day, nuh-uh.
Basically, these caverns were discovered in 1960 by local college students, following the pre-discovered and existence of the natural limestone bridge above them. Well, for more information and stories, please go straight to here.
Moving on, this was my first time wandering around in caverns. I’ve never even been in a cave. So, it was awesome. Made you wonder what was it like in there, hundreds or thousands years ago, when a tiny stalagmite and stalactite were beginning to take form. When any humanly action would feel helpless and meaningless.
Now, I’m not going to perform a lecture about calcium carbonate or formations of the sedimentation (some of them are called popcorns, soda straw, chandelier, and bacon, by the way), and etcetera. I will just share some pictures my husband took. Pardon us, it wasn’t a proper-lighted (phone) camera, and the caverns are very low-lit. So, don’t expect much. I can tell you one thing, these pictures we took, made the formations of the caverns look creepy! They’re not, really. In reality, they look astonishing in an elegant way.
Chandelier formation
And, this is the bridge from where this place named after. It is located near the entrance of the caverns. It seems the caverns has made themselves more famous than the namesake.
Image via Wikipedia
