America's largest underground lake is found within a cave in
Sweetwater, Tennessee. We took a 2 hour tour to explore the cave and lake.
illuminated cave bacon
This cave is one of the few places in the world that cave flowers like this
one exist. For this reason, the cave is now a registered national landmark.
A small waterfall that drops into a small pond that drains into the lake.
An old moonshine still that was left in place.
Finally we descend to the lake, load into a boat and explore from the water.
At one point they added Rainbow Trout to the cave water. They quickly found it to be problematic as the fish were unable to procreate. Trout normally attach their eggs to plants along the bottom, but here there is only sand, so the eggs would float to the top and promptly be eaten. They feed the fish dog food during the tour and the fish expect this and come swimming toward the boat in large numbers.
On our way back to the cave entrance, the kids had us hang
to the back of the group so they could race each other out.
The "bear claw" stalagmite.
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