We were pretty fortunate to arrive at the cave the time we did because were were just in time for a tour. There were a lot of people going on the tour, so we had our own personal tour with a guide. We walked up the many hundreds of steps to the cave entrance. The guide showed us signs on the tree of flying squirrels...honest.
The cave entrance.
We walked a few hundred feet in when we came to this bat gate. It's to keep unwanted humans out, but allows bats to fly through since it's their home in the winter. Pretty spooky! It was an impressive gate.
We weren't allowed to touch the walls of the cave, which is understandable for preservation reasons, but one couldn't help but touch such a formation to find out if it was as slimy as it looked. (It wasn't)
Our happy little group. This was the only picture of Quent in the cave.
I seem to recall Woodsen hitting his head on the rocks a lot. Good thing he had a helmet on. It was tricky ducking under some of the rock.
One of my least favorite things about Southeast Alaska (there aren't too many) are all of the boardwalk steps. Thankfully, Ketchikan has a lot of trails that I refer to as "normal".
We drove through Whale Pass (nobody blink or they might miss it) to another cave.
It was pretty cool!
There's quite a story behind those yellow cedar steps (aka "The Monument to Yellow Cedar"). Ask me about it sometime.
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