Saturday, August 11, 2007

Inner Space Cavern

Georgetown, Texas
August 4, 2007

In 1963, the Texas Highway Department began testing the ground in Georgetown to build I-35. They started drilling holes to test the strength of the ground. This is when they discovered Inner Space Cavern. Naturally, they went ahead and built the highway right over the cavern.




You are not allowed to touch anything because it will stop the growth of the formations in the cave, but there is one place that they allow you to touch. We decided not to touch it because the child sized germ factory in front of us had something that sounded a lot like whooping cough or TB. Gross.




If you do touch anything, you turn into black and white statues from the 1960s.




You can buy furry hats in the gift shop. Nothing says "caverns" like a furry hat. But Sylwester does look really cute!




Our tour guide told us that this formation was a sumo wrestler eating ice cream. I can see the sumo wrestler, but can can she be sure that he is eating ice cream? And what flavor? I would have asked her, but when she offered to take questions she always cut off the kid with really good questions. It was kind of like going on a tour led by a hall monitor.




Here are a bunch of other picutres I took of the cavern.
















5 comments:

mad said...

That looks a little like what I would imagine Jabba the Hut's innards look like.

pineapple said...

That about sums it up!

agent mule said...

when i was a kid in central texas the entrance to the inner space caverns was just a hole in the middle of a field with a rope tied to a tree so visitors could repel down into innards of, well, jabba the hut.

Anonymous said...

It all looks like genetalia, both male and female to me

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