A Journey to the Lost River Cave

Around 9:30 we loaded the bus to make our way to Lost River Cave. It took about 10-20 minutes.

The Blue Hole

The first thing on the tour was the Blue Hole (Blue Hole #4). The tour guide told us all these interesting stories and amazing facts about the river. One story was about how it got its name, which also goes into the other story about how the river was deemed the deepest and shortest river, 437 feet deep and 350 feet long before disappearing into one of the country's largest cave entrances, it being 437 feet deep gave it the name bottomless, and there is calcite in the water so when the Sun hits the water it makes it look blue, Blue Hole. But the river was measured by some students from Western Kentucky University and came out with an astonishing number of 15 feet deep.

The Blue Hole is blue
There is calcite in the hole
That is why it's blue

Getting Ready for the Boat Tour

As we were making our way down the hill, the tour guide told us some more stories and facts about the cave we were about to enter. About how it was a night club, there used to be proms and dances here and there still is sometimes, also the river eventually became the city's favorite dump/junkyard. People would throw just about anything and everything in there, cars, ovens, stoves, washers, dryers, mattresses, TV's couches, chairs, everything it must have been disgusting getting all of that stuff out. I wouldn't be surprised if they had found some bodies down there.

There was night club
The river was used as a dump
There were proms there sometimes

Boat Tour

We're now on the boat tour, and the tour guide is pointing out stuff and telling us about it. She points out this one rock that looked kind of like the Kentucky Wildcat or Chester the Cheetah. There were a couple other too one was a buffalo and another one was a pig.

Now we're in the cave
It's raining on us, Oh Dear!!
Cave Thunder is loud

We made it to the dam and we're making our way back to the entrance. She's telling us a story about Jesse James the outlaw and how this cave was one of his hideouts. But the creepy thing was there was this rock that looked just like a human. There was the hair, chin, mouth, nose, all the facial features it was crazy. There also was a mummy and a bonsai tree that took up a good portion of a cliff side, the whole cave was just amazingly crazy. Let me not forget about the story she told us about four Civil War Soldiers taking a swim in the Blue Hole and how only one came back.

Civil War Soldiers
Three of them died in the hole
Where did they go, ooo!?

Butterfly Habitat

We're finished with the boat tour and we're now on our way to the lovely Butterfly Habitat. The Butterfly Habitat is such an amazing, marvelous, peaceful place. There were so many noteworthy butterflies.

The orange butterflies
With some black & white to them
They are so pretty

Not to mention the butterfly romance in the air. There was so much love the butterflies shared between each other, chasing each other from plant to plant.

There's butterfly love
It's in the atmosphere
Two lovers in love

Not only did the butterflies love each other but they loved the wonderful flowers in there too. I think the butterflies might have even adored them more than we did. They kept them pollinated, if I was a butterfly i would have too because they were so mesmerizing and beautiful.

Flowers are pretty
The butterflies think so too
Lost River Cave, YEAH!!!!!!!!!!