Lower Antelope required some canyoneering skills along with ropes and ladders to enter
oh oh
that reminds me of a hellish cave adventure in Aruba I got myself into
small cave, only about half an hour to get through the entire cave
so I went ill prepared [smiwsiut and flipflops]
tour guide gave us flashlights that you held [no lights in the cave] and to follow these arrows painted in the walls - after about five minutes of descending a steep rocky slope deep into the cave, where I slipped and fell a dozen times cause of the flipflops and no natural light left, I turn to tell the guide I didn't think I could make it - the guide was gone
4 of us left alone in pitch black, was hot as hell and just ahead a steep drop-off you had to rappel down!
we made it down, but the area was so confined you couldn't stand up!
and damned arrows all over the place! that is when you could find them in your tiny beam of flashlight
we crawled through and tried to go faster, so hot, and lost and so scared
when we could stand a guy in the party slammed head first into a low rock ledge
I flashed the light on him only to see blood streaming down his entire face
did I mention the sight of blood makes me faint?
after several dead-ends we saw a ray of light way over head
we crawled/climbed up and up
I lost my flipflops, couldn't tell you where or when and didn't care
our party staggered out of the cave, blood all over Chuck, my feet bleeding, shoeless, drenched in sweat
the guys ran over to the little ticket booth and reamed the ticket seller out
he didn't understand English, but prolly understood blood, so he gave us 4 free warm sodas for our misadventure
btw, it was called The Tunnel Of Love |
