{"id":182,"date":"2017-12-06T23:11:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T22:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cirsche.com\/Travel\/?p=182"},"modified":"2017-12-06T23:11:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T22:11:41","slug":"hoehlentour-cave-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cirsche.com\/Travel\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"H\u00f6hlentour \/ Cave tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auch heute haben wir uns einen sp\u00e4ten Morgen geg\u00f6nnt \u2013 erst um zehn haben wir ausgecheckt. Und dann sind wir direkt zu den Capricorn Caves. F\u00fcr elf Uhr hatten wir dort die Cathedral Tour gebucht. Toll! Die H\u00f6hle, die wir erkundet haben, ist fast ausschlie\u00dflich \u00fcberirdisch. Wir haben tolle Formationen gesehen, elend lange Baumwurzeln, die sich durch den weichen Stein bohren, und wir haben uns durch ganz enge und niedrige Felsspalten gequetscht. N\u00e4chstes Mal machen wir die Adventure Tour, die war heute leider schon ausgebucht.<\/p>\n<p>Today once again we allowed ourselves a late morning \u2013 at ten we finally checked out. And then we drove directly to the Capricorn Caves. For eleven o\u2019clock we had booked the cathedral tour. Great! The cave that we explored is almost completely above ground. We saw great formations, terribly long tree roots that drill through the soft stone, and we squeezed through very narrow and low rock crevices. Next time we will do the adventure tour, today that was already fully booked.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-191\" src=\"http:\/\/cirsche.com\/Travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/rhino-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cirsche.com\/Travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/rhino-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cirsche.com\/Travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/rhino-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cirsche.com\/Travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/rhino.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Daf\u00fcr hatten wir Gl\u00fcck, dass wir zur richtigen Jahreszeit und genau zur richtigen Tageszeit da waren: durch ein Loch in der Decke schien die Sonne f\u00fcr ein Weilchen zu uns herunter, unsere Tourleiterin hat L\u00f6cher in unsere Eintrittskarten gebrannt &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But we were lucky that we were there at the right time of year and exactly the right time of day: through a hole in the ceiling the sun shone done to us for a while, our guide burned holes into our tickets \u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-192\" src=\"http:\/\/cirsche.com\/Travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/smoke-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cirsche.com\/Travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/smoke-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cirsche.com\/Travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/smoke-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cirsche.com\/Travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/smoke.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Drau\u00dfen vor den H\u00f6hlen gab es Tische und B\u00e4nke, da haben wir unser Mittagessen verspeist und Schmetterlinge bewundert. Da gab es so eine Menge! Von ziemlich winzig bis sehr gro\u00df, schillernd blau, vornehm schwarz, frech hellgelb &#8230; und auf der Suche nach Schmetterlingen haben wir dann was entdeckt??? Tawny Frogmouths!! Ein wundersch\u00f6ner Vogel \u2013 und wir haben gleich vier gesehen.<\/p>\n<p>Outside, in front of the caves, there were some tables and benches, where we had our lunch and admired the butterflies. There were so many! From quite small to very large, iridescently blue, elegantly black, cheekily yellow \u2026 and while searching for butterflies, what did we spot??? Tawny frogmouths!! A beautiful bird \u2013 and we saw four at the same time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-189\" src=\"http:\/\/cirsche.com\/Travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/frogm-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cirsche.com\/Travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/frogm-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cirsche.com\/Travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/frogm-768x557.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cirsche.com\/Travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/frogm.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eigentlich wollten wir heute fr\u00fcher fertig sein und noch einen Nationalpark am Nachmittag erkunden, aber dazu wurde es zu sp\u00e4t. Also haben wir statt in Emerald schon in Blackwater Halt gemacht. Wir haben schnell ein nettes Motel gefunden, dann sind wir spazieren. Hier wird Kohle abgebaut, und zu dem Thema gibt es ein Museum, das auch einen japanischen Garten hat (warum? Keine Ahnung). Das haben wir uns von au\u00dfen ein bisschen angesehen, morgen wollen wir hin, wenn offen ist. Aber heute durften wir auch schon etwas besonderes entdecken: eine Gottesanbeterin!<\/p>\n<p>Originally we had wanted to be done much earlier and explore a national park in the afternoon, but it got too late for that. So instead of in Emerald, we stopped earlier, in Blackwater. We quickly found a nice motel, then we went for a walk. Here coal is mined, and addressing that topic there is a museum that also has a Japanese garden (why? No idea.). We looked at all that from the outside for a bit, tomorrow we want to go there when it is open. But today already we spotted something very special: a praying mantis!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-190\" src=\"http:\/\/cirsche.com\/Travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/praying-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cirsche.com\/Travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/praying-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cirsche.com\/Travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/praying-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cirsche.com\/Travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/praying.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auch heute haben wir uns einen sp\u00e4ten Morgen geg\u00f6nnt \u2013 erst um zehn haben wir ausgecheckt. Und dann sind wir direkt zu den Capricorn Caves. F\u00fcr elf Uhr hatten wir dort die Cathedral Tour gebucht. Toll! Die H\u00f6hle, die wir erkundet haben, ist fast ausschlie\u00dflich \u00fcberirdisch. 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