Into the darkness - Texas Part 3

Texas. The Lone Star State. A place hot enough in the summer to cook an egg on the sidewalk...although we didn’t actually try to. Maybe next trip.

How does one cool off in such an area during a pandemic with so many shops closed? We chose to take our kids and go underground, deep underground thanks to the Inner Space Caverns.

Into the darkness

If you’ve ever been to more than one public cave, you’ll notice they tend to be similar to each other. This doesn’t change how much fun they are to go through though. Plus there are, as our guide put it, thumb sized fuzzy chicken tenders, i.e. little bitty bats to ooh and aah over.

Fuzzy chicken nuggets

Aside from a respite from the heat, the caverns let your Imagination soar, as long as you don’t touch anything. No seriously, they will fine you, preservation of the formations is very important. If you lack inspiration for what can be seen, no worries, tour guides love telling stories using stalagmites, stalactites and black lights.

A king, a princess and their people

Who live in their castle

Cave bacon and a hot air balloon

Playing with a black light

Daggers on the ceiling

Innerspace has a couple of different levels of tours, everything from the classic walk through to their Wild Cave Tour where you get to spend “3 to 4 hours of hiking, crawling, climbing, and squeezing through tight spots to view beautiful formations and large decorated rooms.” That was the tour everyone wanted but it was unavailable during our outing so we stuck with the classic tour.

Still, the views on any cave excursion are worth going for.