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To: arno who wrote (9953)5/26/2004 3:07:48 PM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 12669
 
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