Webster Cave, Breckinridge County, Kentucky

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     This is Chris Anderson and I, circa 1990ish, when we were the Kentucky Cave Studies Group. I even had a business card that read such. It was a nice thing to hand over to landowners when we were itching to tramp their property looking for caves. Our real target though was Webster Cave, and why not? It’s enormous, and while I’m not talking exactly Mammoth-type enormous, it is certainly cyclopean, with, as both Chris and I enjoy, vast galleries of rock and water. A ponded lake no less than two miles long, booming passage, thigh-deep mud, eyeball-high sumps…they all await you.


 

     These pictures were shot during the survey of the Webster entrance section. It is not nearly so vast as the lake passage, but as you can see, it’s pretty darned capacious. It’s pretty long too, currently surveyed to seven miles plus. I can assure you, there’s lots more if you’re willing to work at it.


 

     This is not a passage representative of the greater portion of Webster Cave, but it sure was fun…it’s more of an upper connector passage walled with slime mud. If you loved playing in mud puddles as a child, caving is very definitely for you!


 

     Odd, I don’t seem quite so jovial here…I wonder why…


 

     Chris is not tall in stature, but he more than makes up for it in intensity, artistic talent, desire, and caving ability. Plus, a small body is, in caving, a good thing. Still, at times I’m sure he wishes he might be just a bit taller, and thus this picture, taken outside the Webster Spring Entrance, one of three on the downstream end of the cave (we searched for years for an upstream entrance to no avail.) I am standing in a deep pool, of course.

 

Again, all the pictures here are by Chris, and you can—and should—see more of his work at Darklight Imagery.

         

 

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