Wednesday, June 20, 2012

June 20, 2012 Blue Ridge Highway mm 317.4

We have no internet  in the campgrounds. No hook ups, no electricity, no cable TV. They are national park campgrounds, so they are half price with the senior card. $8 a night. We use the generator to charge up the batteries. I is in the high 70’s instead of the 90’s in the low land. I have to drive out to post the blog for all of my avid blog  followers . All you people who just can’t wait for the latest update on our life. Ha!!  We are in a beautiful national park and  the campgrounds are half empty.

It is the longest day of the year.  We started by going to Linville Caverns, a natural limestone cavern.   Cathedral like arches, columns and deep passageways, blind trout, vivid mineral  colored stalactites and mites-That would be stalactiaaaaaates- southern accent and stalacmiaaaaates, a bottomless pool and we even got to experience total darkness. Moderate sized cavern, 30 minute tour.  It was fun.

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Linville Caverns, a view up to the ceiling at cave bacon and the blue thing (lit  up by the guides flashlight) in the middle is  a stone pigs ear.

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Children recoiling from the gross green stalactiaaaaate, the green color is from copper,  more cave bacon- if you look at it from the side those strips are striped like bacon.

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More brilliantly colored stalactiaaaates, the blind trout.

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After the caverns we returned to the campsite and I sat in my lawn chair and worked on the latest basket. When it got hot I went to this river and refreshed myself. This photo is taken as I am laying down in the water.

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pin cushion flower, forget me not's, wild red  monarda. I grow monardas in my garden in  Denver.  A second kind of weird monarda, black damsel fly, and a flowering white bush.

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