Wookey Hole

The area around Wookey Hole

 

This weekend we decided to take advantage of the beautiful place we live in as opposed to travelling away somewhere.  Monkey has been talking about Wookey Hole for a while now, so we took the opportunity this weekend to visit, as it is relatively local.

There is a quite long queue once you have paid your entrance fee to get up to the caves, but it is well worth the wait, and the views while you are waiting are great.  You get a guided tour around the caves, which resulted in me having to ask Wolf to sacrifice his hat as they kept talking about the bats in the cave of which I have a chronic fear.  It's actually fascinating and I'm glad it was a guided tour, we learnt so much more about the caves.  The great thing about these caves is that unlike others we have been to, for example Cheddar, they have been left very "natural" they are dimly lit, the ground is uneven, muddy and slippery and there are a number of places where you have to bend quite low to get through, but it is worth it to truly experience the natural beauty of the caves.

 

The history of the cave is fascinating, how they have explored from one cavern to the next, the number of years it has taken, the cave divers, and the myths about the witch of Wookey hole.  Allegedly a witch that had lived in the caves for years, was chased down into the depths of the cave, sprinkled with holy water which turned her to stone....



Personally I don't see a witch, the shadow is
supposed to be the witch, however especially in
this picture, I see a horse head.

 

We were lucky enough while we were there that they had just recently opened a new cavern to the public after a multi-million pound investment.  As it was so new we had to wear hard hats to go into the cavern, but it was really amazing, mother nature is an amazing thing with the masterpieces she creates

 

Inside the cavern complete with hardhats

"Merlins Beard" - part of the inside of
the newly opened caverns

Once the tour was over and we were back in the outside world there were a whole host of activities, a dinosaur display, crazy golf etc. etc.  We had a great family day out doing something that we all enjoyed, whilst also getting to learn a little more about the area in which we live.

 

 

 

No trip to the caves would be complete without the obligatory caveman photo - definitely the best looking cavemen I have ever seen!!