Sharon Grove Cave, Todd County Kentucky

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     This cave sits in a hollow below a roadside park in southwestern Kentucky. It’s a short walk to get to it and it’s a pleasant little trip. There’s even an upper entrance if you don’t mind a little crawling and getting somewhat damp. Here’s P. J. suited up and ready to go…you can tell by his attire that this isn’t exactly a hardcore caving experience!

 

     That noted, it’s still a pretty airy cave. This picture is a bit dark, not because the flash didn’t go off, but because the passage is rather large! It’s a nice stroll for the most part for about 700-800 feet with a couple of crawls interspersed, not at all bad. Mind you, the easy access and travel through it means there has been some damage done by vandals, a few broken formations, some spray paint, but it’s no Buckner’s (a classic case of massive overuse) either.

 

     Some of the pretties are fairly massive. You can see where they’re broken, and that’s a shame, but what’s left is still awfully nice. If you get there, please remove any trash you find. We did.

 

     Some nicely banded flowstone.

 

     More flowstone. Clearly this was once a superbly beautiful cave and it’s still quite nice.

 

     Yes, there is a bit of crawling to do, in water even! Wouldn’t be a proper cave trip without it.

 

    Past the duckunder there is this neat bit of flowstone that almost has a sawtoothed edge. It was so nice I took two pictures…

 

     …and here’s the other. I’m not sure what I’d call this were I to try and name it. Feel free to try yourself!

 

    Occasionally I am wont to turn the camera on myself, and being as this was the first “real” cave trip of 2008, not to mention the 250th cave of my “career”, I figured at least one celebratory shot was in order!

 

     Finally we headed out, not via the second entrance (no knee pads!) but back the way we came in. The entrance is rather attractive and looks at one point to have had perhaps some commercial development; understandable considering the location and the beauty. All that’s left now is some steps and a concrete platform spanning the mouth of the cave, visible here as the horizontal structure just past P. J.’s silhouette.

 

 

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