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Post by Cullyn Of Cerrmor on Nov 27, 2015 14:08:20 GMT 9.5
How Tantanoola Caves were found by a 16yo boy and his lost ferretOne day in 1930, 16-year-old Boyce Lane was out indulging in a favourite pastime — rabbit hunting. The Tantanoola teenager was wandering around a local spot known as Hanging Rocks and was calling for his ferret, which had disappeared chasing a rabbit down a small hole in the cliffs. Mount Gambier newspaper the Border Watch reported at the time that the teenagers squeezed through the small hole, shone their flashlight about and saw a row of hanging stalactites, the first hint that something quite incredible lay beyond. After the brothers dashed home to tell their father George about their discovery, a group of men returned later that day to investigate, armed with ropes, lamps and torches. Illuminated by the bare light of their torches, what the men witnessed was spectacular. Hidden underneath the cliff face was a large cavern, the ceiling swept with thousands of hanging stalactites, and floor-to-ceiling multi-tiered columns resembling wedding cakes. Eerily silent, the cave's heavily decorated interior had been thousands of years in the making, the formations slowly grown millimetre by millimetre by water dripping through the dolomite. Click Here to Read More:
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