{"id":335,"date":"2006-07-04T19:46:03","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T02:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/04\/spelunking-with-my-nephew\/"},"modified":"2006-07-04T19:46:03","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T02:46:03","slug":"spelunking-with-my-nephew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/335","title":{"rendered":"Spelunking with My Nephew"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent\u00c2\u00a0a day with my nephew Lukas and we went exploring two caves that are accessible to the public in upstate New York:\u00a0 Howe Caverns<\/a> and Secret Caverns<\/a> .\u00a0 Here are some pictures from our trip .\u00a0 Howe Caverns is much more developed than Secret Caverns .\u00a0 Howe Caverns has a brick path on the cave floor, while Secret Caverns has a much rougher floor .\u00a0 In the pictures, most of the color comes from strategically placed colored lights .\u00a0 The natural colors of the formations range from white to tan to black with rose hues in some places.<\/p>\n

\"Howe<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0The Tour Guide with my Nephew Lukas<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Howe<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0Stalagmites and Stalactites\u00c2\u00a0in Howe Caverns<\/em>
\nStalagmites grow from the ground;\u00c2\u00a0 stalactites grow from the ceiling.<\/p>\n

\"Howe<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0The Pipe Organ in Howe Caverns<\/em>
\nThe tour guide hummed into a formation on the cave wall opposite this formation and it sounded like a pipe organ playing!<\/p>\n

\"Howe<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Bridal Altar in Howe Caverns<\/em>
\nThe heart is a piece of calcite cut in the shape of\u00c2\u00a0a heart and lit from below.
\nQuite a few couples have been married here.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\"Howe<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0The Old Witch in Howe Caverns<\/em>
\nSee if you can see the face of a Witch in this rock.
\nThe tour guide pointed out three different ways to see the witch.<\/p>\n

\"Secret<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Flowstone\u00c2\u00a0and Stalactites in Secret Caverns<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Secret<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0The Elephant’s Foot in Secret Caverns<\/em>
\nLukas has just passed the Elephant’s Foot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent\u00c2\u00a0a day with my nephew Lukas and we went exploring two caves that are accessible to the public in upstate New York:\u00a0 Howe Caverns and Secret Caverns .\u00a0 Here are some pictures from our trip .\u00a0 Howe Caverns is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-5p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}