Framedlight

We finally made the visitor centre, the Giant Forest Museum to glean a little information and when we parked found there was snow on the ground. We realised that a tour of the Crystal Cave, which sounded inviting, was to start in about an hour and that it was a 40 minute drive to the entrance so we went straight up there. The tour was led by an earnest young man who was well acquainted with the geology of the cave and told us all about it. Crystal was a complete misnomer as it was limestone with some mites and tites.  I have only been to large caves in France, where the guide always says 'Voila un chou-fleur' or 'Ici la Madonne', so it was quite refreshing to find geological features described in geological terms. I assumed that water would take aeons to percolate through the mountain, but in this instance rainwater gets through to the bottom of the cave very quickly. I did not take a picture inside the cave but there was a little waterfall outside which I did ...