Warsaw Caves - 22nd August

What a great lie in... apart from Lulu who kept on climbing on the bed and collapsing on our feet or Stormy snorting in his sleep. I think we're going to shut them out tonight!
A relaxing breakfast and then we got ready to head off to the Warsaw Caves National Park about 1/2 hour out of Peterborough. We packed nuts and fruit and water for the dogs and headed off. It wasn't what we expected at all. The caves are up to 100m long / deep and are not guided at all you just take a torch (which we had) and head in on your own exploring as deep and as far as you want. These caves were formed in the same way as the Bonecherre caves after the last ice age, but most of the system has collapsed. There are trees perched all over the rocks; their roots are really shallow because of the rocks so they tend to fall over really easily. We didn't go too deep as it was really slippery inside from the rain last night, but there were a few very muddy explorers around. We walked along a trail to the kettles; evidence that the whole area was once under a huge river. The kettles are holes drilled into the limestone rocks by whirlpools and eddies carrying debris in a river. They ranged from a diameter of around 5cm up to over a metre wide and about 3m deep (see the photos). We ate our fruit and nuts by a river whilst Storm (once again) played in the water. A really beautiful place to spend a few hours as you can see from our photos.
Tristan found the most beautiful millipede; on our way back to the car; with go faster stripes in vivid orange.
Then back home and another home cooked supper. We watched the Importance of Being Earnest (again), which I love and generally slobbed about. MARVELOUS!