Mama Kat Thursday: What I Wished I Said
The Mama Kat Prompt Challenge for today is "Describe a time when you wish you had spoken up." Have you ever been on a cave tour? I have. More then once. When was a kid, we visited Mammoth Cave, which is HUGE and really cool. But here in Florida, we also have a state park with caves you can take a guided tour through. It's called Florida Caverns State Park, located on the panhandle about halfway to Tallahassee. Of course, compared to Mammoth, these are miniature caves, but they make great field trip fare for the school kids and offer a cool retreat from summer heat. The thing about cave tours is they all want to show you how really dark it is by turning off the lights so you can appreciate why cave crickets and fish are blind So, inevitably, the ranger will guide your group into a suitably large space, then after a talk about it, turn off the lights, so you can experience utter darkness. Total darkness actually is a little visually disconcerting as y...