Armed with a county road map, a laptop and mapquest, I found this interesting site without too much trouble (my GPS unit was broken). The video begins as I walk toward the main entrance to the cave. I call it the main entrance because it is the opening into which the water is flowing. The scenery around the cave is quite captivating. Sure, it is pretty much just a cattle field, but it's quite beautiful in its own right, due to the overwhelming greenery, plus with the beautiful scattering of limestone rocks and boulders of all different shapes and sizes littering the area, as well as the surrounding mountains and hilltops. I had neither wading boots nor a flashlight, so I did not wander too far into either entrance to the cave (look for my other video showing the other entrance to the cave on the opposite side of the knoll as the one I am standing on in this video.) At the entrance of this video, I stumbled upon a group of butterflies which seemed completely oblivious to my presence near them with a camera. They obviously were more concerned with attracting a mate, and their shenannagans in front of the camera for the world to see were quite amusing. I tried to keep up with them in flight, but, alas, even the butterfly with its completely erratic flight patterns proved to be too fast for me to keep up with my camera. Also near the entrance to the cave were birds which would gracefully swoop down near the entrance and then back out away in to the distance, making an awesome ...
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