Despite living close enough for a day trip a few times, I never had gone out of the way to the Caverns, something I sought to rectify on this jaunt. Besides the obvious barnacled drip sandcastles and Fraggle Rock episodes, curiously mutated walruses kept coming to mind. As you might imagine, very little justice is done to the big wonder of the space and details with these phone camera snaps.
As I walked back up to the surface against the flow of visitors, someone remarked she assumed I’d gone rogue and left the trail. The climb took about 45 panting minutes—interpreted by the phone as 71 flights of stairs.