Wednesday 23 January 2013

Sonora Caverns

20 – 23rd Jan

 
We moved further west from Bandera to Sonora.  Here they have some fantastic caves.  Luckily they have a RV camp site at the caverns so we book in for a couple of nights.  The sun was shining and we sat sunbathing for the afternoon.




 
We got talking to the couple in the RV next to us and spent the rest of the evening sat around the camp fire chatting and they gave us some good advice and recommendations on places to visit.  It had been around 25C that afternoon but the evening temperature dropped and there was frost on the car windows next morning.  Thanks to Adina, Paul and Sophie the dog for a great evening.  Unfortunately they were heading east and we were heading west, so the next day we said goodbye to them.



Monday morning we went into the Caverns which took us down 155ft underground.  The Caverns extend for up to 7 miles of which our guided tour was approx. 2½ miles.  The formations were extensive.  There were stalactites and stalagmites as well as ‘straw’ formations and most of all ‘popcorn’ was everywhere.  We were down for nearly 2 hours and the temperature was around 23C with humidity of around 80%.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sparrows Homes
Guinea Fowl
The afternoon was spent sunbathing, listening to the guinea-fowl and watching the peacocks and sparrows.  Some deer came into the camp site later too.



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