Photo Adventure: Inner Space Caverns

This week my cousin Caleb has been visiting my grandma and so we've been spending time together swimming, playing laser tag, and roasting marshmallows. Yesterday we ventured to Inner Space Caverns in Georgetown a mere 20 minute drive. The entrance to the caverns is nestled right next to an interstate highway, and it's deceiving how so much beauty can be found in a suburban area. The caves were discovered in the 60s, in the time of the space race, and early spelunkers though the subterranean landscape looked like of other planets, and you sure can see why! I was truly blown away by the beauty. The was rock can take so many textures and shapes is magnificent.

Grandma and Caleb rock some eclectic outfits. Grandma's sock have a "wicked witch of the west" vibe going, and Caleb was dubbed "Grandma's African Hunter"

This cave was the most spacious and roomy that I have experienced. The stalactites and stalagmites were stunning.

 I found it fun to treat the formations like we do clouds, finding shapes and making up little stories to go along with them.

This formation looks to me like the outcome of a soft serve ice cream machine run wild.

Notice how all these stalagmites are suspended about a large open space. Whole arrangement looks like a kingdom from a Dr. Suess picturebook.

Kind of looks like a bunch of jaws from a giant cave monster, does it not?

The cave has a serious case of molluscum contagiosum.

Sure looks other-worldly, doesn't it?

Do you see the crescent moon shaped pool to the right?

The water the dripped down from the ceiling collected into pools and it was absolutely the clearest water I've ever seen. I was expecting some kind of mythical creature to emerge from it.

Caleb pointed out how this formation looked like the head of a bird, and it totally does. 

Once we exited the cave Caleb mined for some gems with a fancy bag of sand and he generously gifted me this hunk of clear quartz which, to me, looks like an eternal ice cube. He easily identified all his findings as he is a nature aficionado.

It was such a fun outing and I'd love to go back to this attraction and revel in the splendor of our Creator. It's pretty crazy how a bunch of minerals combine and do some science magic and *shabang* beautiful rock formations. I think it takes some intense creativity to design a system with such magnificent results. 

Want to see more Cave photos? Click here to see my post about Longhorn Caverns!