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08/25/24 - Lake Cave

Like many wine producing areas, the Margaret River area has a lot of limestone underground. This means caves, and we love to explore caves. We aren't spelunkers, so we aren't going to crawl around in narrow passages. We go for the tourist caves with safe walkways, handrails as needed and electric lighting. We loved the Naracoote Caves near Koonawara, so we had to see a cave on this visit.

Lake Cave was one of many, but our guide the other day, among others, recommended Lake Cave. We bought our tickets online and at the appointed time began our descent into a big hole in the ground. We walked down staircase after staircase, supposedly about 380 steps. We could look up and see the forest above, but we could also see stalactites along the edge of the hole.

We got our briefing, then we went down yet another set of stairs into darkness. There was an underground lake in the cave. There was a walkway with handrails, so we made our way along the edge of the lake. There were stalactites and stalagmites in fantastic forms all around us. We stopped to admire and let our cave guide explain things for us. Then we went further into the cave. There was a moment of darkness and then a light show with colored lights.

Having seen our fill, we returned to the surface climbing step after step from deep underground to forest level. There are at least six caves in the region, but we only had time for one. Next time.

Looking into the hole

Forest and eroded limestone

Stalactites




Looking up

In the cave




The lake reflecting light

The lake again

Colored lights




Back along the walkway

Then up the stairs




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