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Jillio, in the one thread you mentioned you and your son went caving once.
That reminded me that hubby and I also went caving before we were married and he was in better shape. It was lot of fun! I wore some of his old clothes that he didn't want and were already kinda ripped up <at the time I was also bigger> and we went with a caving group. It was in the Fall. The cave was really amazing. We climbed and crawled through these little spaces - wow!
Did you guys ever go again?

has anyone else gone caving or would like to?
 
I've been in a few caves, as a tourist.

One cave in Ecuador had albino bats and waist-deep water.
 
dogmom said:
Jillio, in the one thread you mentioned you and your son went caving once.
That reminded me that hubby and I also went caving before we were married and he was in better shape. It was lot of fun! I wore some of his old clothes that he didn't want and were already kinda ripped up <at the time I was also bigger> and we went with a caving group. It was in the Fall. The cave was really amazing. We climbed and crawled through these little spaces - wow!
Did you guys ever go again?

has anyone else gone caving or would like to?
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Oh, yeah. It was one of our special activities together. We would go to the thrift shop to buy our caving clothes, because most of the time, they were too nasty to even be washed.

There were a couple of caves we went to that you had to do an arm over arm crawl through a little box before they would let you go into the cave. Then, once, we had to go straight up to continue. I am so short that I couldn't get a toe hold high enought to pull myself through the opening. My son had to get underneath me and push me up!:lol:

Yep, those are good memories for the both of us. He thought it was so cool that mom would get down and dirty like that.:lol:
 
Reba said:
I've been in a few caves, as a tourist.

One cave in Ecuador had albino bats and waist-deep water.
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Cool! We saw plenty of bats, but not a single albino one. Sloshed through a bunch of water though. One set of caves in TN had underwater springs underneath them. Depending on how much rain had fallen they could be anywhere from dry to enough water to canoe in!
 
Been in the Florida Caverns. That is about it. Would love to go and explore more caves.
 
Been to several caves. And different types! Big ones that you can simply walk through. Low ones where you spend most of the time crawling or bent over. In Mexico, I went to a small cave that had signs that said "BATS INSIDE". So my mom and I walked inside and... it was a dead end. There was a little light coming in from a low lying hole in the other side of the cave. I could lipread my mom saying "Where are the bats?" I shrugged.... then I looked up... BAM... right there!!!! Only a few feet above us!!!

Naturally, I took advantage of this situation to play with my mom's hair to make her think that bats were attacking her. :D
 
Daredevel7 said:
Been to several caves. And different types! Big ones that you can simply walk through. Low ones where you spend most of the time crawling or bent over. In Mexico, I went to a small cave that had signs that said "BATS INSIDE". So my mom and I walked inside and... it was a dead end. There was a little light coming in from a low lying hole in the other side of the cave. I could lipread my mom saying "Where are the bats?" I shrugged.... then I looked up... BAM... right there!!!! Only a few feet above us!!!

Naturally, I took advantage of this situation to play with my mom's hair to make her think that bats were attacking her. :D
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You mean child! I know what you mean though. I have been in some that the walls were just covered with bats but you didn't even know they were there until you turned the flashlight on them. It was like bat wall paper.
 
Daredevel7 said:
Been to several caves. And different types! Big ones that you can simply walk through. Low ones where you spend most of the time crawling or bent over. In Mexico, I went to a small cave that had signs that said "BATS INSIDE". So my mom and I walked inside and... it was a dead end. There was a little light coming in from a low lying hole in the other side of the cave. I could lipread my mom saying "Where are the bats?" I shrugged.... then I looked up... BAM... right there!!!! Only a few feet above us!!!

Naturally, I took advantage of this situation to play with my mom's hair to make her think that bats were attacking her. :D
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Ya mean!! :giggle:
 
I know I know....... I was quite the trouble-maker/prankster in my teens. I was actually a "good girl" in terms of academia, drug-use, social life, and romantic life. So my rebel-ness has to come out somewhere!!!!!

Don't worry. I will (and currently am) making up for it for the rest of her life by being as sweet to her as I can possibly be!
 
Daredevel7 said:
I know I know....... I was quite the trouble-maker/prankster in my teens. I was actually a "good girl" in terms of academia, drug-use, social life, and romantic life. So my rebel-ness has to come out somewhere!!!!!

Don't worry. I will (and currently am) making up for it for the rest of her life by being as sweet to her as I can possibly be!
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I have always told my son to just wait; he will have one just like him one day! Being a prankster is passed genetically in my family!:P
 
jillio said:
I have always told my son to just wait; he will have one just like him one day! Being a prankster is passed genetically in my family!:P
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Sounds similar to what my mom would say: "I can't wait for you to have a daughter JUST LIKE YOU."
 
I've heard of Carlsbad but never been there. Aren't they supposed to be very deep or have some other particular feature?

Jillio I bet that was a very special experience to have with your son! That is cool - when I went, we had some teeny places to get through too , where you had to crawl, and in order to get out <we went out a different way then we came in> we had to take turns being hoisted up or stand on someone's shoulder's and climb out. Our cave didn't have any water though like the one you were in, Reba. Or at least none we went through or saw. But there were bats and I saw a little crawlie guy here and there. Albino bats would be intriguing <to me>.

Daredevel :lol: how long were you in Mexico?

yeah, I'd like to explore more caves, too Babyblue.

then there's that cave SCUBA-diving.....I don't really swim but I can imagine how intriguing that would be!
 
dogmom,

I've been to Mexico several times (Puerto Vallarta, Cancun, Playa del Carmen/Cozumel). Each trip was probably a week or so. The bat cave was in Cozumel if my memory serves me correctly.

And cave diving? Oh my god I'd LOVE to do that. Underwater cave diving require specialty certification, and most likely would need some type of a closed circuit SCUBA gear (rebreather).

Would love to do this one day.....
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I have never been to any caves or caverns. Too claustrophobic.
 
that is nice interesting awesome :) sound interesting fun!
 
DD, that's an amazing picture, do you know where that is?

seems like you've done some serious traveling, I've never been to Mexico.
what kinda things did you see when you were there?
 
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