They have been formed over many many years by the erosion of the surrounding landscape leaving limestone out crops in place. Water then flowed into, through, and over these out crops slowly dissolving components in the limestone over many, many years.
The caves and galleries have columns, stalactites, stalagmites, "cave coral", fossils, pools, and other formations. Some formations in the cave were named by the tourists who used to use the cave as a picnic spot and are called whimsical things like "the elephant" or the "candle."
There are bats, cave spiders, some evidence of other wildlife; not to mention the trees growing through the holes in the tops of some of the open chambers.
Then there is the "Laundry Chute." This feature is the one place where you can get down in the mud a wriggle through a gap in the cave wall. You crawl in about a meter, turn around in a tiny chimney crevice, and then slide feet first through a little gap. The whole process is a lot shorter then it sounds and is heaps of fun!
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| Awesome people who went on this trip! Those cliffs behind us are the outside of the caves. |
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