Tuesday Activities

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We woke up in a cave, packed out, ate breakfast, and then Mike came back and talked to us about caving safety. We then went Wild Caving and got to see firsthand what MUD and lots of COLD water felt like! We came out and washed up and then boarded the bus for Boiling Springs State Park where we had lunch, went swimming, moved into our cabins, ate a hot dinner, then to UCO (University of Central Oklahoma) Selman Living Lab to watch the transit of Venus across the sun (which won't happen for another 117 years!) and then see some night sky. Click on any photo to see an enlarged version.
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After we woke up in the cave, packed out, had breakfast....	it was time for a class on caving safety with Mike.	He went over some of the topics we covered in class...
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and some particular to his caves.	Listen well... we're serious here!	After the talk, we each got a helmet and headed off with our guide toward our first cave.
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We all had yellow helmets that said Alabaster Caverns on the front...	Hey... this trail looks like the one we did yesterday!
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		Whoa... wet trail ahead!!
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You ain't seen nothing yet ...as they say!!	The BEFORE picture... notice how clean the shirts are... not for long!!	The first cave Bear Cave had been flooded in the past week, we were going to see if it was still passable! It's going to be wet!!
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Bear Cave (east entrance). Ready to go!! We encounted tons of mud, and a water passage that only had 8 inches of air space... 12 of the 14 made it though the tight air passage!! Wow!! Great gang!!!	The camera couldn't take the water and left the cave with the two that couldn't get though the water part and came back later for Owl Cave.	The AFTER picture... comeing out of Owl Cave. Oh boy moms... bet those are hard to clean! <grin>
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Lunch in Boiling Springs State Park... Mazzio's pizza!!	Then play on the playground!!	Nothing to wash cave dirt away than a romp in the swimming pool!!
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It was an excellent pool complete with lifeguards!	We had two days of swimming at Boiling Springs... for about 2 1/2 hours a time!!	Then we had to move in the Youth Campgrounds #2 we rented.
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The boys moving in their cabin....	Relax in the air conditioning
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A nice low basketball goal for slam dunking...	and while waiting for dinner, how about some football?
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