A nearly two-hundred foot waterfall inside a cave. The cave "authorities" (cave people?) illuminate the falls with different colors, thereby creating a surreal effect. The picture has not been doctored. The place is cheesy with an unmistakable tourist trap atmosphere, but the splendor of the falls itself is not completely negated. Cheese is the price you pay for having others do the hard work of digging an elevator shaft four hundred feet into the mountain, securing a half-mile walking path through the cave to the falls, and providing tourist guides. I can't imagine why the persons who did (and do) all that would want to be compensated for their efforts. So: no cheese, no experience. My one complaint is that to herd adequate numbers of people through the cave in a timely fashion each tourist group spends literally no more than five minutes at the falls.
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Very cool! After Mud Cave, this must have been a joy to walk in. Is it close to your house?
it's seventy-five miles or so if you know where you're going; about two-hundred miles if you were as lost and confused as we were.
you'd think the fourteen thousand "See Ruby FALLS!!!" signs studded throughout the southeast would have helped.
nope. not us.
after a fair number of missed turns and extended heated conversations about which way is north and why ruby falls was inconvenniently located where we were NOT, someone near and dear to both of us reminded us several times that, "hey, it's all part of a big adventure."
she was more right than not.
Although running the risk of being borderline inappropriate, I must confess that this shot of Ruby Falls always reminds me of grabbing my first set of breasts at the age of 14. You know, when the guide initially takes you into the portion of the cave with the waterfall and it is pitch black. Yeah, that's where it all went down.
Turns out, taking 40 eighth-graders out of school for a field trip and putting them in a dark cave for nearly an hour is the right combination for mild promiscuity. This seemed to be a trend among other earth science classes as well.
they don't call caves "dirty" for nothing.
did you get in trouble with the guide, or was the guide the object of your new adventure?
Hahah...No trouble for me....I am too "sneaky sneaky".
But now that you mention it, that certainly explains who grabbed my cans:-0
I was nowhere NEAR Ruby Falls!!!
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