Xavier Goes Spelunking
Greetings to everyone.
Well, not really spelunking, but Xavier did tour a famous cave named Little War Eagle Cave. The cave has history. A distillery during the Prohibition Years, a hide out for Billy the Kid, Pioneer home and home for American Indians to list a few uses. Hollywood even filmed part of a movie inside.
One would think that this vacation and so many "firsts" for Xavier, Dad would have his camera handy and taking scores of pictures. Strangely, no. The only picture taken with Xavier is this one. We waited for the tour tickets to be purchased, and Xavier played with a rat. Not a dead rat, not a real rat; it was a plastic rat used to decorate the waiting area.
When he was finished playing with the rat, he placed it back on the rock he found it on. Then, looking at it, he realized it was not positioned the same as when he picked it up. He adjusted it a few times until it rested like he found it. (I don't know where he gets that from)
The tour of the cave was interesting. Xavier did not want to stay in his umbrella stroller, so we parents needed to pay extra attention to Xavier's romping about than to the guide. The cave had many streams running through it, and many drop-offs, and several pools.
We hoped to see bats (the tour brochure listed them), but we learned the bats roost back in the deep cave, through a crevice too narrow to get through. However, Tropical Depression Bill's effects had driven a few Gray Bats into this cave (these are not normal denizens of this particular cave). The picture does not really show them clearly, even with the help of a photo editor. As the bats did not move, Xavier found them uninteresting.
