Mark Twain Cave

This is the entrance to the Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain) Cave. It was so amazing inside, our pictures don't do it justice. The tour guide made it fun with all kinds of stories related to the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.

Walking in beside a little girl who was telling me that she was afraid of the dark and worried about going inside. She was holding on to her father's hand so tightly that her fingers were white.

A view inside the caves.

There was a section of the caves where names were written all over the walls and celings. This is one that was way up high that was signed June 25, 1924. They used to use a torch to burn the rock and then scratch in their names which has helped to preserve them over time. The cave became a protected site in the early 1970's so they no longer allow people to sign their names.

Steve inside one of the passage ways.

Me inside the same passage way. You can see the lights they have placed along the way. At one point in the tour they turn off all of the lights so you can see how dark it is. See is not the right term because when they turned off the lights it was so dark that you could not even see your hand in front of your face. As soon as the lights went off my thoughts immediately turned to the little girl I walked in with. She did okay, but I'm sure that the blood supply to her father's arms and hands was cut off for those few seconds that the lights were out.