We had a hot summer’s day and the pleasure of heading for a nice cool cave.  I like this one because it has a very low key presentation for visitors (apart from the sound and light show of a local legend), and also because of the lovely flint nodules studding all the walls.  The really amazing thing about flint is that like limestone, it’s a rock composed from a living origin.  The nodules form in burrows or other holes left by living things in the limestone as it was forming.  The silica in the flint comes perhaps mostly from micro-organisms.  Too cool.

I love real caving, as long as I’m with a guide who knows what they’re doing, but I have to wait a couple of years before I can take my daughter.  Mike does not love caving. When he was young, he went caving with a couple of buddies who thought guides were for wimps and unexpectedly spent a night lost in the darkness!  Then when they got out, they got told off by the rescue services for being dumb.  I guess it put him off for life.