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Saturday 2005 May 14
Remember Mattel's Magic Eight Ball popular in the seventies? Ask a question and mostly get vague, worthless
answers, or if you were lucky you might get a committed yes or no. You can buy one of these bad boys at Amazon.com
for $8 (ships from Toys-R-Us). Or, you can go to Tipton, MO to see a colossal Magic Eight Ball water tower.
"But that's just a regular Eight Ball," you say. "Where's the magic?"
You just let me worry about the magic.
I arrived at Jacob's Cave around 2:30 p.m., six hours after my departure from
Omaha. The tour guide was a 21 year old kid, fairly knowledgeable about caves.
He has only been out of state once. "Everything I need is in Missouri," he said.
I was able to take a bunch of pictures in the cave, and many turned out!
This is a picture of a cave frog!
These are bones that were collected inside the cave and put into a display case.
Apparently these are parts of the jaw of a mammoth.
When in caves, people try to envision things in the rock that may or may not be there.
This sort of looks like a pulpit where one might preach a sermon.
And this formation looks a bit like a piano.
There were places with inscriptions. This one was from 1940-something.
A shot of wet cave formations. Jacob's Cave is still a very active (wet) cave meaning
that
speleothems, a greek name meaning "cave deposit," are still growing. The growth
rate is not rapid.
I believe this is called rimstone. Little pools are formed, and inside you can find "cave pearls."
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