Mark Twain Lake - Camping Excursion - Day 2 - The Caves

Saturday was a busy day.  After a quick breakfast we drove to Hannibal, MO to check out the Mark Twain Caves.  I grew up reading Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn so it was fun to walk around the area that inspired parts of the book.  Plus, we were able to learn a bit of history about the area :)

The Mighty Mississippi (as viewed from the car).

  

Evidently, the caves were originally discovered after a man chased his dog into this hole.

 

This is the main entrance now :)

 

I will admit, I have never been one to readily explore caves to the point that I can't easily find my way out or that there isn't at least some sort of light. I don't know, just not my thing. This trek was completely fine though since it was a guided tour with lights :) Aside from those few minutes that they turned off the light; that was a weird experience. I don't know that I have ever experienced absolute darkness before. Anyhoo, here are some photos of our tour. I think they were crazy back in the day to go in with nothing but a candle.

   

We were all rather hungry by the time we exited the caves so we stopped for a bit in Hannibal and headed back to the campsite. I'll stick my other photos on a new post :)