Here's one of my favorite pics... This is my daughter, many moons ago, at the tender and impressionable age of 5 in the back of Barton's Cave. Besides a walk through tour of a commercial tourist cave, this was her first "real" caving experience. We duct taped a caving lamp to her bike helmet, but her head was so small, that the weight of the light kept making the helmet fall down over her eyes. We solved the problem by stuffing all of her hair into a tossle cap, and then putting the helmet over that. Fashionable AND functional!
All helmet problems aside, getting her INSIDE the cave proved difficult as well. I guess she had been expecting a big walk in entrance, perhaps with a gift shop and tour guides like her last cave experience. when she saw the little hole outside the cave she shouted "I'm not going in THERE!" Once I coaxed her inside, she did wind up enjoying the experience... though apparently, not enough to ever do it again! lol |
