Day 6 – Saturday, June 21, 2008
First full day at Clifty Falls. We headed straight for our favorite trail and the Tunnel. This is a man-made cave in Clifty Falls State Park. At about 600 feet long it's not too hard to negotiate, but it is completely dark and wet. There is at about 100 feet in an opening above you that goes up about 100 feet. We usually see bats in here but not this time. About ½ way in was a natural spring and pool. Very small but here we saw cave spiders and salamanders. We have yet to identify these. As soon as we get back to Internet access and or a library we will have names for you. Also among the reptilians where tadpoles. We didn't come across any snakes, but we did find a sole to a dress shoe and socks.

Saturday also gave us a great deal of fun. After the tunnel, we continued our trek to the infamous Trail 2. This trail goes along a creek, sorry, don't know the name right now. This is where we find more fossils than you can imagine. You are not allowed to take them out of the park, but to just look is amazing. To think about this park at one point was part of the ocean just boggles the mind. As we ventured south about 2 miles we came upon trail 8. What is the significance of this trail you may ask, well nothing really, except it was 2 miles in the wrong direction. Now, I can't blame this on Tony, but it he was the map reader and I didn't second guess him even though I wanted to. I figured he knew, right? So we found a trail, that of course, half way through was closed due to land slides. We maneuvered around it and headed toward the road, only to find we were over 2 miles from our car. At this point we had been hiking for about 3 hours. We came to a playground. Tony left us there and went to retrieve the car. What a trooper! He ran about 2/3 of the way back – 1.4 miles at this point, to get the truck and pick us up! 20 minutes later, we were on our way back to our camper. We decided to shower, change, and head into Madison for pizza and ice cream. Pizza was at a mom & pop pizza place that was very good. We then went to the famous Mundtz Candies and Ice cream only to find it closed for remodeling. What? This place has been here since 1857. What remodeling? We love this place so much we would drive from Fishers to Madison, Indiana just for the ice cream. It's been featured on the food network many times. How dare they close! Didn't they know we were coming? Oh well. A few blocks down is Kalidescoop. We had our fix and headed back to the camper!