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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
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
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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