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[email protected] LoogyPicker@gmail.com is offline
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Default Boating and caving do go together

On Oct 23, 9:47*pm, wrote:
On Oct 23, 12:49 pm, wrote:

On Oct 23, 12:01 pm, wrote:


Check this out, kaying inside a huge cave.http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...lleries/river-...


Reminds me of the enormous room in Borneo that is so large a small
airplane flew into it.
Here in the USA, the largest room is in Tenn. called Camps Gulf.


Interesting, I didn't know that! You probably have a working knowledge
of those guys that started in a small cave somewhere around Cave City,
KY and ended up in the what was then the dining room in Mamouth Cave.
Really interesting (to me) story.


Friend of mine was an avid kayaker but was unfamiliar with N. FL
rivers. *He took his kayak down the Aucilla River *from US27 planning
to go all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. *Everythin went fine until
the end of the second day when the river came to a stop. *It just
ended. *Well, he had heard of rivers in these parts going underground
for a short ways and then coming back up so they got out and carried
their boats a short distance to where it came back up. *Then it did it
again, then again and he gave up. *This river goes underground 23
times.


Yeah it's pretty cool. One time a few years back, a team actually
mapped paths for several underground rivers in Florida using sonar (I
think). The areas that were short enough runs teams of divers with
cameras went in. I'm going to look for that, I'm not sure now if it
was National Geo. or who.