Cave of Wonders -- by Kayla

Six of us went to explore some wet caves not too far from our station here the other day, which might have been the best thing we’ve done yet! We went into one shorter cave-tunnel with Steve, Carra and Pete first and saw some cool bat colonies and rock structures made of clay and calcium and stuff. We had to wade through water around our knees at times. Then just us students went exploring through a second cave-tunnel for maybe a half hour. It was much longer and exciting, the water up to my neck at some points and we had to crouch a bit for some parts to not hit the ceiling. Bats flew around our heads and we saw a bug that looks like a mix of a crab, spider and scorpion (amblypygi). If you watched the 4^th Harry Potter movie it’s the spider Moody messes around with in class. Pretty creepy, but harmless, we touched them. Anyways, pretty awesome adventures in the caves!!!