You can cave canoe in barton creek cave in belize. Its a quite popular tourist attraction...a few tousand feet in...the river is blocked by a collapse...and you start "caving" at that point.
David Locklear wrote: > That photo in the previous post shows a scenic cave. I would > love to go to Chiapas someday. > Has anyone ever kayaked thru > the 2 big river caves near Taxco: Chonta and San Jeronimo. > I seem to recall someone floating them in inner tubes. > I haven't been thru San Jeronimo and have only visited > Chonta from the skylight to the resurgance. That was one > of the funnest caving trips I ever went on. There were many > Texas cavers there that day and there is a video of the trip. > I have never seen the video. I heard rumors that it was > shown at a UT Grotto meeting about 10 years ago? > I have been rafting in a cave near a village called Comalapa, > just south of Zongolica in Veracruz. That was fun, but it > was not a thru trip nor were there any rapids in the cave, but > plenty downstream. > I don't seem to recall ever going canoeing in a cave. I missed a chance > at the recent Indiana NSS Convention. But I do > remember seeing a Harry Walker slide show ( from the 70's ), where they canoed > the Rio Tamuin thru the Sierra Madres and they briefly passed under a > limestone > bridge that covered the river just east of Ciudad Valles, I think? > One of the fun things to do in river caves is body-surfing ( if that > is the right terminology ). That is were you just ride the rapids > in the cave with no inner tube. Of course, you have to have > already checked downstream to confirm it is safe. I have been > body-surfing in a river cave by accident and that wasn't much fun, > especially when you are underwater and can't seem to find the surface. > David Locklear > ( This e-mail was sent from my new job. Can an IT department > monitor G-mail? ) > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our website: http://texascavers.com > To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com > For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
